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In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".
Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.
At its 1864 convention, the Republican Party selected Andrew Johnson, a War Democrat from the Southern state of Tennessee, as his running mate.
A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled " The Rail Splitter At Work Repairing the Union.
Of special importance were Tennessee and Arkansas, where Lincoln appointed Generals Andrew Johnson and Frederick Steele as military governors, respectively.
Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.
Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).
Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.
She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.
The Andrew Johnson House, built in 1851, Greeneville, Tennessee
The Whigs thought Andrew Johnson a dangerous prospect as a United States Senator, and made it a priority to prevent his election by the state legislature.
Andrew Johnson appointed nine Article III federal judges during his presidency, all to United States district courts.
Senator Andrew Johnson in 1875.
The burial ground was dedicated as the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery in 1906, now part of the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site.
A Northern senator averred that ' Andrew Johnson was the queerest character that ever occupied the White House.
A Study of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction ( 1930 ).
* Benedict, Michael Les, The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson ( 1999 ).
* Boulard, Garry, The Swing Around the Circle — Andrew Johnson and the Train Ride that Destroyed a Presidency ( 2008 ) ISBN 978-1-4401-0239-4
* Castel, Albert E., The Presidency of Andrew Johnson ( 1979 ).

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* Obituary: " Andrew Johnson Dead ", New York Times, 1 August 1875
" Andrew Carnegie ", Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History.
On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.
In 1977, Bixby appeared with Donna Mills, Richard Jaeckel, and William Shatner in the last episode, entitled " The Scarlet Ribbon ", of NBC's western series The Oregon Trail, starring Rod Taylor and Andrew Stevens.
* His collection of short stories, " Worlds Enough & Time ", takes its name from the first line of the poem To His Coy Mistress by British poet Andrew Marvell: ' Had we but world enough, and time ,'.
* Toulmin, Stephen, " Fall of a Genius ", a book review of " Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges ", in The New York Review of Books, 19 January 1984, p. 3ff.
* Revkin, Andrew C. " Cool View of Science at Meeting on Warming ", The New York Times, March 4, 2008.
* Haigh, Andrew C. " Modal Harmony in the Music of Palestrina ", in the festschrift Essays on Music: In Honor of Archibald Thompson Davison.
In these early films, Hawks established the prototypical " Hawksian Man ", which film critic Andrew Sarris described as " upheld by an instinctive professionalism.
" Cromwell at Dunbar ", Andrew Carrick Gow.
* " Old Hickory ", the nickname of Andrew Jackson ( 1767 – 1845 ), the seventh President of the United States
* Burge, Tyler ( 1982 ) " Other Bodies ", in Woodfield, Andrew, ed., Thought and Object.
During his presidency James K. Polk was known as " Young Hickory ", an allusion to his mentor Andrew Jackson, and " Napoleon of the Stump " for his speaking skills.
A conjecture developed by Cumrun Vafa, Amer Iqbal, and Andrew Neitzke in 2001, called " mysterious duality ", concerns a set of mathematical similarities between objects and laws describing M-theory on k-dimensional tori ( i. e. type II superstring theory on T < sup > k − 1 </ sup > for k > 0 ) on one side, and geometry of del Pezzo surfaces ( for example, the cubic surfaces ) on the other side.
* Crossett, Andrew, " Index: The Women of Playboy – 1967 – 2007 ", 2007.
* " Plasticities ", a song by Andrew Bird, from the album Armchair Apocrypha
" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.
Simon showed Garfunkel a few songs that he had written in the folk style: " Sparrow ", " Bleecker Street ", and " He Was My Brother ", which was later dedicated to Andrew Goodman, a friend of both Simon and Garfunkel and a classmate of Simon's at Queens College, who was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964.
No one connects " Andrew Wiggin " with " Ender Wiggin ", nor do they connect him ( as " Andrew " or " Ender ") with the original Speaker for the Dead.
More's friend Andrew Ammonius derided Alice as a " hook-nosed harpy ", although Erasmus attested that the marriage was a happy one.

Andrew and White
* White, Andrew Dickson.
White House historians assert that U. S. President Andrew Jackson held an open house party where a 1, 400 lb ( 635 kg ) block of Cheddar cheese was served as " refreshment ".
* White, Andrew.
Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).
He picked up the nickname " Andy " at Cornell, where tradition confers that moniker on any male student surnamed White, after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White.
President Bush sent White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andrew Card Jr. to Ashcroft's hospital bed, where Ashcroft lay semiconscious, to request that he sign a document reversing the Justice Department's ruling.
* 1832 – Andrew Dickson White, American educator ( d. 1918 )
In Spring 1891 the Stanfords offered the presidency of their new university to the president of Cornell University, Andrew White, but he declined and recommended David Starr Jordan, the 40-year-old president of Indiana University Bloomington.
The conflict thesis, which holds that religion and science have been in conflict continuously throughout history, was popularized in the 19th century by John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White.
The college began looking for a new home at the same time that Syracuse, ninety miles to the east, was engaged in a search to bring a university to the city, having failed to convince Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White to locate Cornell University there rather than in Ithaca.
Those open houses sometimes became rowdy: in 1829, President Andrew Jackson had to leave for a hotel when roughly 20, 000 citizens celebrated his inauguration inside the White House.
** Andrew Dickson White, American academic, diplomat, and co-founder of Cornell University ( b. 1832 )
* In Maryland, the Jesuits Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase arrived with Lord Leonard Calvert on March 25, 1634, and in that year established an institution of higher learning at St. Mary's which later became known as Georgetown University, North America's oldest university.
* November 7 – Andrew Dickson White, American historian, diplomat, and co-founder of Cornell University ( d. 1918 )
* December 27 – Andrew White, Apostle of Maryland ( b. 1579 )
* Andrew Dickson White ( 1896 first edition.
He also claims to hold several Russian dynastic orders, including the Order of Saint Andrew, Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky, the Order of the White Eagle, and the Order of Saint Anne.
Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.
* 2009: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Andrew Gregg was elected to represent Lycoming County in the United States Congress, William Hepburn was voted to the Pennsylvania State Senate and Flavel Roan, Hugh White and Robert Martin served as representatives in the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
Led by then-General Andrew Jackson, a coalition of militia from Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, federal troops, White Stick Creek, and the traditional rival Cherokee crushed the outnumbered and out-gunned Red Sticks.
It was brought about by the visions of Andrew Jackson Downing, the architect who designed the grounds of the U. S. Capitol and White House.

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