Did You Know? During Andrew Johnson's presidency, his secretary of state, William Seward, negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. At the time of the 1867 deal, critics dubbed it “Seward's Folly.” Alaska became the 49th U.S. state on January 3, 1959. read more
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. read more
That same year, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), a fellow Democrat and Tennessean, became the seventh U.S. president. Like Jackson, Johnson considered himself as a champion of the common man. He was resentful of rich planters and favored states’ rights and populist policies. read more
In the US, when the President dies the next in the line of secession is the Vice President. It is not like a Parliamentary system, where there is a vote on the next leader; the next leader is set in stone in the US when the President dies, is impeached, or resigns. read more
With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states’ rights views. read more