Legacy: Andrew Johnson’s racism and antipathy towards African-American civil rights were a harbinger for similar attitudes to come during Reconstruction. The first president to be impeached—but not ...

The following carefully compiled list gives in full the official record of the exercise of the veto power by ANDREW JOHNSON during ... all the vetoes of all the Presidents that preceded him ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 1963 (UPI) - President Lyndon B. Johnson is the first southerner to hold that office since Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, who also succeeded an assassinated president.

On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted along party lines, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Days later ...