安德鲁约翰逊,大会,TN(1808-1875)

1808-1875
参议院服务岁月:
1857-1862;1875-1875
聚会:
民主党人;民主党人

约翰逊,安德鲁,(David Trotter Patterson的岳父),代表和来自田纳西州的代表和参议员以及美国副总裁兼第17届会议;1808年12月29日,N.C.出生于Raleigh;自我教育;13岁的人被裁判起来;于1826年搬到田纳西州;聘为裁缝;Greeneville,Tenn的Alderman,1828-1830;Greeneville Mayor 1834-1838;议员,州代表州1835-1837,1839-1841;elected to the State senate in 1841; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Public Expenditures (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses); did not seek renomination, having become a gubernatorial candidate; Governor of Tennessee 1853-1857; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from October 8, 1857, to March 4, 1862, when he resigned; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Thirty-sixth Congress), Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-sixth Congress); appointed by President Abraham Lincoln Military Governor of Tennessee in 1862; elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and was inaugurated on March 4, 1865; became President of the United States on April 15, 1865, upon the death of Abraham Lincoln; wide differences arising between the President and the Congress, a resolution for his impeachment passed the House of Representatives on February 24, 1868; eleven articles were set out in the resolution and the trial before the Senate lasted three months, at the conclusion of which he was acquitted (May 26, 1868) by a vote of thirty-five for conviction to nineteen for acquittal, the necessary two-thirds vote for impeachment not having been obtained; retired to his home in Tennessee upon the expiration of the presidential term, March 3, 1869; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1869 and to the House of Representatives in 1872; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1875, until his death near Elizabethton, Carter County, Tenn., July 31, 1875; interment in the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, Greeneville, Greene County, Tenn.

参考书目

美国国家传记;美国传记词典;美国法律的耶鲁传记词典;Trefouse,Hans L.安德鲁约翰逊:传记。纽约:W.W.Norton&Co.,1989;约翰逊,安德鲁。安德鲁约翰逊的论文。Leroy P. Graf,Ralph W. Haskins和Paul H. Bergeron编辑。11卷。迄今为止。诺克斯维尔:田纳西大学出版社,1967年。

资料来源:美国大会的传记目录,1771年至今