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" As President in 1865, Johnson wrote to the man he appointed as governor of Mississippi, recommending, " If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution in English and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at at least two hundred and fifty dollars, and pay taxes thereon, you would completely disarm the adversary in Congress, and set an example the other states will follow.
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Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865
* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )
* 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).
As Vice President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following his assassination.
On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.
The President also reassured many by his decisiveness in ordering the establishment of a military commission on May 1, 1865 to try the surviving conspirators involved in Lincoln's assassination.
* Gordon-Reed, Annette Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865 – 1869, ISBN 0-8050-6948-8.
* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
Abraham Lincoln assassination | Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln ; 1865 depiction.
* 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
* John T. Ford ( 1829 – 1894 ), American theatre owner and manager ; 1865 assassination of President Lincoln occurred in one of his venues, Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C.
* 1865 – American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.
President Davis met with his Confederate Cabinet for the last time on May 5, 1865, in Washington, Georgia, and the Confederate government was officially dissolved.
* 1865 – Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian politician and jurist, 11th President of Brazil ( d. 1942 )
* 1865 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States ( d. 1923 )
* 1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
( December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883 ) was an American physician who was convicted and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln.
The Thirteenth Amendment's archival copy bears an apparent Presidential signature, under the usual ones of the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate, after the words " Approved February 1, 1865 ".
Warren Gamaliel Harding ( November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923 ) was the 29th President of the United States ( 1921 – 1923 ).
President and Johnson
Just a brief note of appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of `` people to people '' good will.
You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??
Division two will include the representations of Massachusetts and Texas, the respective states of the President and of Vice-President L. B. Johnson.
The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.
* 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States ( d. 1973 )
* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
alt = President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn seated behind him
On April 20, Kennedy sent a memo to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, asking Johnson to look into the status of America's space program, and into programs that could offer NASA the opportunity to catch up.
Upon Kennedy's death, President Johnson issued an executive order on November 29, 1963 to rename the LOC and Cape Canaveral in honor of Kennedy.
In his first term in the state house, Johnson did not ally with either the Democrats or the Whigs consistently, though he revered Jackson, the Democratic President.
Rep. Samuel S. Cox saw Johnson at this time and remarked that, when asked if the President would modify his views, " He got as ugly as the devil.
During the impeachment trial, Representative Benjamin Butler launched an investigation into suspicious and complex activities surrounding certain Senators, whose votes would either convict or acquit President Johnson.
There is no evidence that President Johnson knew of any illicit activities.
The most positive accomplishment during his Administration was the purchase of Alaska from Russia, though this was probably due more to the efforts of William H. Seward than President Johnson.
* Stewart, David, O. Impeached: the Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy ( 2009 ) Simon and Schuster, New York, NY.
* " The Impeachment trial of President Johnson ", Harper's Monthly Magazine, April 1868
* 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
* Rehnquist, William H. Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson ( 1994 ).
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