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Andrew Johnson
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Johnson, Andrew 

Born Dec. 29, 1808, in Raleigh, N.C., died July 31, 1875, in Carter’s Station, Tenn. US statesman.

Johnson joined the Democratic Party in the late 1830’s. In 1861 he opposed the formation of the slaveholding Confederacy in the Southern states. During the Civil War (1861-65) he was appointed military governor of Tennessee (1862). In March and April 1865 he was vice-president of the USA, and after the assassination of President Lincoln, Johnson served as president (1865-68). The program he proposed for the reconstruction of the South in fact restored all the power in the Southern states to the plantation owners.
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