Andrew Johnson

Birth	29 DEC 1808
Occup	1830-1833		Greeneville Mayor
Occup	1843-1853
Occup	1853-1857
Occup	1857-1862
Election	1860		USA Presidential Election
Occup	1862-1865
Election	1864		USA Presidential Election
Occup	1865-1869
Occup	1865-1865
Occup	1875-1875
Death	31 JUL 1875		Cause: stroke
Grave

The lives of people usually begin with these salient facts which shall be listed for this President: Place of birth, near Raleigh, North Carolina; date of birth, December 29, 1808; condition of birth, abject poverty. Many presidents have been born in poverty - a few in log cabins. But all of them seemed to have something if no more than a hunting gun and a Bible. Johnson's father was a poor laborer who died very shortly after his birth. His mother married again, but this man had even less. There is nothing about church or education in the early life of the Johnsons. When he was about sixteen he took his mother and stepfather to Columbia, South Carolina, but there conditions of life were even worse for them if that were possible. Johnson had... Read More