Death of the Hon. Andrew Johnson: U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Ex-President of the United States, lithographic print by Currier & Ives, 1875.
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. Seven years later, Johnson re-entered political life as an elected official when Tennessee sent him back to the Senate, but his return to the capitol was cut short after he suffered a series of sudden strokes and died.
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