Lincoln and Kennedy are said to have many things in common, but perhaps the strangest sign was that they were assassinated during his term and that his Vice President was named Johnson.
What kind of person was Andrew Johnson, who became president after Lincoln's death?
President from the South
A major feature of Andrew Johnson would be that he was from South Carolina, a typical southern part.
The term of President Lincoln and the period of the Civil War are almost over. The Civil War was a battle between the north and the south, and the south had withdrawn from the federation for a period of time, and it was South Carolina in Tang that first showed its intention to withdraw.
Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 in North Carolina. When he was three years old, his father died of illness and Andrew was sent to a South Carolina tailor at an early age.
He was not even able to receive primary education because his family was poor, and he learned to read and write on his own. He moved to Tennessee with his brother in his late teens, married Eliza at the age of 19, and had five children between the two. Johnson's full-scale learning is believed to have been done by Eliza, and his reading and writing abacus was corrected by Eliza.
At the age of 20, he was elected to the local city of Greenville and has been the mayor of Greenville since 1834. After that, with the support of the Democratic Party, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives and a member of the Senate, and gradually strengthened his presence in the federal parliament.
President who owned slaves
Johnson from the South owned a black slave as a matter of course. Nevertheless, President Lincoln favored Johnson probably because Andrew Johnson was the only one left on the federal side when the southern states became independent.
Lincoln's pre-Civil War wish was to prevent the separation of the North and South. He also issued the Emancipation Proclamation for that purpose.
Even after the end of the Civil War, Lincoln continued to pursue reconciliation policies with the people of the South and appointed Andrew Johnson, a Democrat from the South, as Vice President.
However, Lincoln was assassinated during that period, and Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States instead.
Reactionary politician Andrew Johnson
Lincoln was assassinated shortly after the Civil War. Therefore, the post-processing of the Civil War was done by Johnson.
Lincoln appointed Johnson as a temporary governor when the Commonwealth occupied Tennessee before Johnson became Vice President. At that time, Johnson took a strict attitude, so he was appointed by Republicans and people in the north. It was thought that Lincoln's line would be taken over, but betraying most expectations, Andrew Johnson would take a reactionary policy.
Johnson was from the South, but said he had a grudge against those in power in the South. Not all humans in the South were in favor of slavery, and only some plantation owners were very interested in slavery. Johnson was therefore expected to take a harsh attitude towards the South, but in reality he issued a pardon to the leaders of the South, abandoning the debt of the Southern Union and allowing him to return to the Commonwealth. In other words, there was no change in the power structure in the south.
In fact, pre-Civil War southern leaders regained his former position through this Johnson policy.
The returning southern leaders passed a law called the "Black Code", which allowed blacks to be legally distinguished from whites, although their status was no longer slaves.
Johnson continued to promote reactionary politics and vetoed the "Citizenship Law" and "Liberation Civil Affairs Bureau Law" issued by the parliament. These two laws were to prevent freed slaves from being discriminated against, but Johnson argued that the federal government's direct involvement in the relief of blacks was an act of over-rights.
As a matter of course, Congress rebelled against Johnson's reactionary politics, and in 1867 President Johnson was impeached.
The result of the trial was 35 people who answered that they were guilty and 19 people who answered that they were not guilty, which was less than the two-thirds required for the presidential dismissal of those who exceeded the majority.
There are only two cases in the history of the United States where the president was impeached in this way. One is Bill Clinton, who was suspected of having an affair, and the other is Andrew Johnson.
Johnson continued to confront the Republican-dominated parliament during his tenure, with his veto being exercised 29 times in total.
After his presidency, he completely lost public support and experienced two defeats. He managed to win, but died in 1875.
Personal evaluation of Andrew Johnson
He is a president with nothing to evaluate.