Who was the 17th US President?
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 & July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865&1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson was a US Senator from Tennessee at the time of the secession of the southern states. He was the only Southern Senator not to quit his post upon secession. Though a slaveowner and a Democrat, he supported the Union; during the war, Johnson was appointed military governor of Tennessee, and fought the rebellion there. He was perhaps the most prominent southerner supporting the Union. In 1864 he was elected Vice President on the Republican Party—renamed the “Union Party”ticket with Lincoln. As president he took charge of Presidential Reconstruction&that is, the first phase of Reconstruction which lasted until the Radical Republicans gained control of Congress in the 1866 elections. His conciliatory policies towards the South, his hurry to reincorporate the former Confederates back into the un
