Vice President-elect Andrew Johnson was drunk when he was sworn in during his inauguration. Before Abraham Lincoln took to the stage for his second inauguration in March 1865, there was the ...

Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office.

George Washington’s first inaugural ... (1850), Andrew Johnson (1865) and Chester A. Arthur (1881) — would go on to be elected to a full term. Conversely, of the five vice presidents who ...

Trump skipped Biden's inauguration ... president in history to skip his successors' inaugurations. (The other three, per CNN: John Adams in 1801, John Quincy Adams in 1829 and Andrew Johnson ...