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{{Infobox_President |
| name=Andrew Johnson
| nationality=American
| image=Andrew johnson2.png     
| order=17th [[President of the United States]]
| vicepresident=none
| term_start=[[April 15]] [[1865]]
| term_end=[[March 4]] [[1869]]
| predecessor=[[Abraham Lincoln]]
| successor=[[Ulysses S. Grant]]
| birth_date={{birth date|1808|12|29|mf=y}}
| birth_place=[[Raleigh, North Carolina]]
| death_date={{death date and age|1875|7|31|1808|12|29}}
| death_place=[[Elizabethton, Tennessee]]
| spouse=[[Eliza McCardle Johnson]]
| occupation=[[Tailor]]
| party=[[History of the Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] until 1864 and after 1869; elected Vice President in 1864 on a [[National Union Party (United States)|National Union]] ticket; no party affiliation 1865–1869
| signature=Andrew Johnson Signature.png
| order2=16th [[Vice President of the United States]]
| term_start2=[[March 4]], [[1865]]
| term_end2=[[April 15]], [[1865]]
| president2=[[Abraham Lincoln]]
| predecessor2=[[Hannibal Hamlin]]
| successor2=[[Schuyler Colfax]]
| jr/sr3=United States Senator 
| state3=[[Tennessee]]
| term_start3=[[October 8]], [[1857]]
| term_end3=[[March 4]], [[1862]]
| preceded3=[[James C. Jones]]
| succeeded3=[[David T. Patterson]]
| term_start4=[[March 4]], [[1875]]
| term_end4=[[July 31]], [[1875]]
| preceded4=[[William Gannaway Brownlow|William G. Brownlow]]
| succeeded4=[[David M. Key]]
| order5=17th
| title5=[[Governor of Tennessee]]
| term_start5=[[October 17]], [[1853]]
| term_end5=[[November 3]], [[1857]]
| predecessor5=[[William B. Campbell]]
| successor5=[[Isham G. Harris]]
| religion=[[Christian]] (no denomination; attended Catholic and Methodist services)<ref>[http://www.adherents.com/people/pj/Andrew_Johnson.html Adherents.com: The Religious Affiliation of Andrew Johnson]</ref>
|}}

'''Andrew Johnson''' ([[December 29]], [[1808]] – [[July 31]] [[1875]]) was the seventeenth [[President of the United States]] (1865–1869), succeeding to the Presidency upon [[Abraham Lincoln assassination|the assassination]] of [[Abraham Lincoln]].  

Johnson was a [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Greeneville, Tennessee]], at the time of the [[Ordinance of Secession|secession of the Southern states]]. He was the only southern Senator not to quit his post upon secession, and became the most prominent [[War Democrat]] from the South. In 1862 Lincoln appointed Johnson military governor of Tennessee, where he proved energetic and effective in fighting the rebellion.<ref name="Britanica1">[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9043849/Andrew-Johnson 'Andrew Johnson'], [[Encyclopædia Britannica]]</ref>

Johnson was nominated for the [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] slot in 1864 on the [[National Union Party (United States)|National Union Party]] ticket.  He and Lincoln were [[United States presidential election, 1864|elected in November 1864]], and Johnson became president upon Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865.  

As president he took charge of Presidential Reconstruction &mdash; the first phase of [[Reconstruction]] &mdash; which lasted until the [[Radical Republican (USA)|Radical Republican]]s gained control of Congress in the 1866 elections. His conciliatory policies towards the South, his hurry to reincorporate the former Confederates back into the union, and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with the Radical Republicans.<ref>{{cite book |title=American Legal History |last=Hall |first=Kermit |coauthors= Paul Finkelman, James W. Ely |year=2005 |edition=3rd edition |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-516225-0 |pages=259-260 }}</ref> The Radicals in the [[History of the United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] impeached him in 1868, but he was acquitted by a single vote in the [[History of the United States Senate|Senate]]. He was the first [[Impeachment in the United States|U.S. President to be impeached]].