Andrew Johnson: The Complex Presidency<br>

Andrew Johnson1865-1869 Suzanne Distrola Pd: 3

Before presidency • Grew up in poverty • Apprenticed to a tailor for several years beforerunning away • Tried to teach himself to read and write • Married Eliza McCardle at age seventeen • She was highly educated

Start of Politics • Became part of the Democratic party • free farm for the poor man. • Lost his seat when the district was gerrymandered, to his disadvantage following the census of 1850. • Elected as governor of Tennessee (1853-57) • Elected to the U.S. Senate (1856) • Only Southern senator who refused to join the Confederacy

Start of Politics (view on slavery) • He made it clear that he was fighting for the Union and not the abolition of slavery. • “I believe slaves should be in subordination and I will live and die so believing.” • “I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is.” • Later viewed that slaves were more productive as free men.

Start of Politics • Elected Vice President • On inauguration day Johnson was drunk while he made his speech to Congress

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/andrewjohnson • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjohnsonA.htm • http://millercenter.org/president/johnson/essays/biography/2second paragraph

Andrew Johnson: The Complex Presidency<br>

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