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.

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 ).

Shortly afterwards, the king reconciled with Andrew whom he appointed to govern the kingdom during his son's minority.

In 1208, taking advantage of the quarrel between Prince Roman Igorevych and his boyars, Andrew occupied Halych and appointed a regent to govern the principality in his name, but Prince Volodymyr III Igorevych managed to reconquer his principality already in the following year.

Shortly afterwards, Andrew made an alliance again with Leszek I and they occupied Halych where again Andrew's son was appointed to prince.

Andrew appointed Pontius de Cruce, Master of the Order in the Hungarian Kingdom, as a regent in Croatia and Dalmatia.

On March 3, 1837, US President Andrew Jackson appointed Alcée La Branche American chargé d ' affaires to the Republic of Texas, thus officially recognizing Texas as an independent republic.

The very citadel of spoils politics, the hitherto impregnable fortress that had existed unshaken since it was erected on the foundation laid by Andrew Jackson, was tottering to its fall under the assaults of this audacious and irrepressible young man .... Whatever may have been the feelings of the ( fellow Republican party ) President ( Harrison ) — and there is little doubt that he had no idea when he appointed Roosevelt that he would prove to be so veritable a bull in a china shop — he refused to remove him and stood by him firmly till the end of his term.

Congress has often explicitly limited the President's power to remove ; during the Reconstruction Era, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, purportedly preventing Andrew Johnson from removing, without the advice and consent of the Senate, anyone appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Three presidents have appointed justices who collectively served more than 100 years: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.

In 1553, Andrew Perne was appointed Master.

Later he was involved in the " Corrupt Bargain " of 1824, after which he was appointed Secretary of State by newly elected President John Quincy Adams, earning the scorn of Andrew Jackson.

Following Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, president Andrew Johnson tried to follow Lincoln's policies and appointed new governors in the summer of 1865.

He was also devoted to family members: when Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire was later appointed ( Minister for Colonial Affairs from 1963 to 1964 amongst other positions ) he described his uncle's behaviour as " the greatest act of nepotism ever ".

* Montford Stokes ( 1762 – 1842 ), United States Senator, Governor of North Carolina ( 1816 – 1832 ), appointed by President Andrew Jackson to lead the Federal Indian Commission in what is now Oklahoma ; he is believed to be the only veteran of the Revolutionary War buried in that state.

* Andrew Brimmer, the first black appointed ( by President Lyndon B. Johnson ) to the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D. C., was born in Tensas Parish.

Currently, McCall is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York, a position he was appointed to by Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2011.

Brendan Hopkins headed Independent News while Andrew Marr was appointed editor of The Independent and Rosie Boycott of The Independent on Sunday.

Among other council appointed staff are Town Attorney Andrew McGuire and Town Magistrate Mitchell Eisenberg.

In 1829, three commissioners, including John B. Peyton, were appointed by U. S. President Andrew Jackson to find a place near the center of Hinds County for the county seat.

On 1 September of the same year, Prince Andrew was appointed as a Midshipman, and entered Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

In late 1983, Prince Andrew transferred to RNAS Portland, was trained to fly the Lynx helicopter, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 February 1984, whereupon the Queen appointed him as her personal aide-de-Camp.

The Federalists appointed Andrew McClure, a local tavern-keeper, as the first postmaster of Zelienople in the first decade of 1800.

On Wednesday June 4, 2008, local chiropractor G. Andrew Szekely was appointed by council resolution to serve the remaining 18 months of the term of Mayor Michael DiNunzio.

His father, Andrew Jardine, died when he was nine, leading the family in some economic difficulty.

* The original nine League or founder members who formed the party on August 2, 1792: Sir Andrew Ffoulkes ( second in command ), Lord Anthony Dewhurst, Lord Timothy Hastings, Lord John Bathurst, Lord Stowmarries, Sir Edward Mackenzie, Sir Philip Glynde, Lord Saint Denys, Sir Richard Galveston

Platted in 1839 by Adam Moore and Andrew Stevens, it originally contained nine lots adjacent to Moore's gristmill.

All of the band's original members from the 1973 — 80 " classic period ", namely Maurice White, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Al McKay, Larry Dunn, Andrew Woofolk, Fred White and Johnny Graham, attended the ceremony, at which the nine of them played together for the first time in 20 years, performing " Shining Star " and " That's The Way Of the World ".

Some people, such as the following authors, have inferred, insinuated, or suggested that entering a state of perpetual war becomes progressively easier in a modern democratic republic, such as the United States, due to the development of a relationship network between people who wield political and economic power also owning capital in companies that financially profit from war, lobby for war, and influence public opinion of war through influence of Mass media outlets that control the presentation for the causes of war, the effects of war, and the Censorship of war: ( 1 ) " The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group " ( 2004 )" by Dan Briody ; ( 2 ) " The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It " ( 2011 ) an anthology by nine authors who are Pierre M. Sprey, George Wilson, Franklin C. Spinney, Bruce I. Gudmundsson, Col. G. I. Wilson, Col. Chet Richards, Andrew Cockburn, Thomas Christie, and Winslow T. Wheeler ; ( 3 ) " Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex " ( 2010 ), by William D. Hartung ; ( 4 ) " Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda ( 2002 ), by Noam Chomsky ; and ( 5 ) " Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media " ( 2002 ), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.

The Andrew and Laura McCain Gallery is a non-profit, community-supported gallery that shows about nine exhibitions a year of everything from exhibitions on loan from the National Gallery of Canada to the work of local school children.

One of nine children, he was the son of Andrew John and Bertha ( née Wangan ) Thye.

In 1996, at the first Democratic Convention held in Chicago since 1968, Dellinger was arrested along with nine others ( including his own grandson as well as Abbie Hoffman's son Andrew ) during a sit-in protest at Chicago's Federal Building.

In the Sala deilo Scrutinio Tintoretto painted the Capture of Zara from the Hungarians in 1346 amid a Hurricane of Missiles ; in the hail of the senate, Venice, Queen of the Sea ; in the hall of the college, the Espousal of St Catherine to Jesus ; in the Sala dell Anticollegio, four extraordinary masterpieces-Bacchus, with Ariadne crowned by Venus, the Three Graces and Mercury, Minerva discarding Mars, and the Forge of Vulcan which were painted for fifty ducats each, besides materials, towards 1578 ; in the Antichiesetta, St George and St Nicholas, with St Margaret ( the female figure is sometimes termed the princess whom St George rescued from the dragon ), and St Jerome and St Andrew ; in the hall of the great council, nine large compositions, chiefly battle-pieces.

Since its creation in 2000, nine Assembly members have subsequently been elected to the House of Commons: David Lammy, Meg Hillier and Diana Johnson for Labour ; Andrew Pelling, Bob Neill, Angie Bray, Bob Blackman and Eric Ollerenshaw for the Conservatives ; and Lynne Featherstone for the Liberal Democrats.

The 2003 Tour d ' Afrique set a Guinness World Record for fastest crossing of Africa by bicycle and this was achieved by nine participants of the race, Michael Kennedy, Chris Evans, Dave Genders ( all UK ), Paul Reynaert ( Belgium ), Jeremy Wex, Steve Topsham, Scotty Robinson, Andrew Griffin ( all Canada ) and Sascha Hartl ( Austria ).

He was orphaned at nine and later apprenticed to a printer, Andrew Kennedy, editor of the Northumberland Gazette before entering the field of journalism.

The name came from The Phantom of the Opera, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that played at the Canon Theatre ( then Pantages Theatre ) in Toronto for nine years.

He played as five-eighth for the Knights, playing outside his younger brother Andrew Johns at halfback for nine seasons.

He was a secondary school teacher for nine years before becoming a political staffer for Victorian government ministers Joan Kirner and Andrew McCutcheon.

Milborne St Andrew is a village in central Dorset, England, situated in a winterbourne valley on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs, straddling the A354 road nine miles north east of Dorchester.

Parishes in the Episcopal Church frequently fly the Episcopal flag, a Cross of St. George with the upper-left canton containing a Cross of St. Andrew formed by nine cross-crosslets ( representing the nine original dioceses ) on a blue background.

In 2004 there were nine British prisoners in Bangkwang, including Michael Connell, serving a 99 year sentence ( commuted from the death sentence and later reduced to 30 years ) for smuggling 3, 400 ecstasy tablets and Andrew Hawke, serving a 50-year sentence for smuggling heroin.

* Andrew Garforth – convicted of the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of nine year old schoolgirl Ebony Simpson.

Andrew Thomas's murder remained unsolved for nine months, until August 1945 when Francis was detained in Texas due to his proximity to an unrelated crime.

At the age of nine, Andrew was asked by a friend to come and play tennis: " I can remember every detail about the day, from the feel of the ball to how it sounded when coming off the net.

He also has nine grandchildren — Kristin Kvernland, Ingrid Wenzler, Amanda Creedon, Alexandra Kvernland, Scott Wenzler, Andrew Creedon, Corey Creedon, Vivian Wenzler, and Bridget Creedon.

Andrew Ellicott was born in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania as the first of nine children of Joseph Ellicott ( 1732 – 1780 ) and his wife Judith ( née Blaker or Bleaker, 1729 – 1809 ).