17th President of the United States
Andrew Johnson
“The Tennessee Tailor”
- In office
- April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869
- Party
- National Union
- Home state
- Tennessee
- Lived
- 1808–1875
- Days in office
- 1,419
- In order
- No. 17: after Abraham Lincoln, before Ulysses S. Grant
- Vice president
- None
Key achievements & events
- Oversaw the start of Reconstruction, clashing with Congress over rights for freed people
- Purchased Alaska from Russia (1867)
- Saw the 13th and 14th Amendments adopted (1865, 1868)
- First president to be impeached (1868); acquitted by a single vote in the Senate
Remember: A Democrat elected on Lincoln's National Union ticket. He never attended school; his wife helped him improve his reading and writing.