The following article from Walkes' Spirit of the Times, lifts the mystery from the singular conduct of Vice-President JOHNSON ... THE POISONING OF ANDREW JOHNSON. -- There can be but little ...

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 ...

George Washington’s first inaugural, as will President-elect Donald Trump ... John Tyler (1841), Millard Fillmore (1850), Andrew Johnson (1865) and Chester A. Arthur (1881) — would go ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson ... on April 15, 1865. He was a Union man, but his roots were ...

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 ...

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 ...