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Definition of Andrew Johnson

1. Noun. 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875).

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Literary usage of Andrew Johnson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 by United States President (1897)
"IMPEACHMENT OF Andrew Johnson, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. On the 24th of February, 1868, the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United ..."

2. American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a by Thomas Valentine Cooper (1892)
"... action which had been taken by the House : " Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States be impeached о high crimes and misdemeanors. ..."

3. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"IMPEACHMENT OF Andrew Johnson. Judiciary Committee's Resolution Fails of Adoption by a Vote of 57 Yeas to 108 Nays—Johnson's Attempt to Remove Secretary ..."

4. History of the United States of America Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1913)
"One is the manuscript collection, placed a few years ago in the Library of Congress, which Andrew Johnson himself preserved, as though for a vindication of ..."

5. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures by Albert Bigelow Paine (1904)
"Before the appearance of the next cartoon, November llth, the changed policy of Andrew Johnson had become known. When elected to the Vice-Presidency he had ..."

6. The History of the Civil War in America by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1866)
"Almost immediately after the capital of Tennessee had thus come again under National rule, President Lincoln appointed Andrew Johnson Military Governor of ..."

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