Portrait of President Andrew Johnson, photograph by Mathew Brady, 1865.
After the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in the spring of 1865, Andrew Johnson, his vice president, assumed the office. Although Johnson had made the punishment of the secessionist Confederates a common theme in his rhetoric, his postbellum actions as president, including near-blanket amnesty for ex-rebels and the vetoing of civil rights legislation for freedmen, led to a permanent rift with Congress, and in 1868, he became the first president to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
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Brady, M. (2026, June 22). President Andrew Johnson. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/21887/president-andrew-johnson/
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