Who Form 5495 Employed 2017-2023

Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States serving from 1865 to 1869 Johnson became president as Abraham Lincoln's vice president at the time of Lincoln's assassination a Democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National Union ticket Johnson came to office as the civil war concluded the new president favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union his plans did not give protection to the former slaves and he came into conflict with the republican-dominated Congress culminating in his impeachment by the House of Representatives the first American president to be impeached he was acquitted in the Senate by one vote Johnson was born in poverty in Raleigh North Carolina apprenticed as a tailor he worked in several frontier towns before settling in Greenville Tennessee he served as alderman and mayor there before being elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1835 after brief service in the Tennessee Senate Johnson was elected to the federal House of Representatives in 1843 where he served five two-year terms he became governor of Tennessee for four years and was elected by the legislature to the Senate in 1857 in his congressional service he sought passage of the homestead bill which was enacted soon after he left his Senate seat in 1862 as southern states including Tennessee seceded to form the Confederate States of America Johnson remained firmly with the Union in 1862 Lincoln appointed him as military governor of Tennessee after it had been retaken in 1864 Johnson as a war Democrat and southern unionist was a logical choices running mate for Lincoln who wished to send a message of national unity in his re-election campaign their ticket easily won Johnson was sworn in as vice president in March 1865 giving a rambling and possibly...