By that September Johnson declared he was in favor of emancipation, describing slavery as a " cancer on our society ", and also succeeded in enlisting 20, 000 black troops for the Union.

He was succeeded by his deputy, William R. Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the presidency after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, was denied the opportunity to appoint a justice by a contraction in the size of the Court.

The incumbent President, Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the presidency in 1865 following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, was unsuccessful in his attempt to receive his Democratic presidential nomination due to his unpopularity.

Johnson positioned himself as a moderate and succeeded in portraying Goldwater as an extremist.

The Johnson Pica was named after Lawrence Johnson who had succeeded Binny & Ronaldson in 1833.

Johnson succeeded to the presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, completed Kennedy's term and was elected President in his own right, winning by a large margin in the 1964 election.

Vice President Andrew Johnson had taken a hard line and spoke of hanging rebel Confederates, but when he succeeded Lincoln as President, Johnson took a much softer line, pardoning many Confederate leaders and former Confederates.

* Vice Presidents John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson and Chester Arthur succeeded to the Presidency following the deaths of their predecessors.

Ran on the West End starring Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson ( succeeded by Wendy Hiller ) to success but mixed reviews-many critics felt it too closely resembled Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman-and had a brief but unsuccessful run on Broadway starring Hiller and Eric Portman.

Efforts by Frank Miller, then owner of the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, Hiram Johnson and others, succeeded in gaining War Department approval to construct an airfield at Alessandro Field located near Riverside, an airstrip used by aviators from Rockwell Field on cross-country flights from San Diego.

William J. Johnson, born 1787, succeeded J. D. Witherspoon at the ferry after purchasing the plantation in 1825 from the Witherspoon estate.

James Brooke was succeeded by his nephew, Charles Johnson, who took the last name Brooke.

Daniel Johnson, Jr. succeeded Bourassa as Liberal leader and Premier of Québec in 1994, but soon lost the 1994 election to the Parti Québécois under Jacques Parizeau.

O ' Reilly left Heinz in 1998 after several years during which analysts questioned the company's performance, and after challenges from corporate governance groups, major pension funds including CalPERS and Business Week magazine ; he was succeeded by his deputy, William R. Johnson.

His editorship ( 1837 – 1838 ) of the Monthly Repository, in which he succeeded William Johnson Fox, was also unsuccessful.

Notwithstanding this party disbanded after the war ended, with the result that Republican Lincoln was succeeded by Democrat Johnson ; the states began to place candidates for President and Vice-President together on the same ballot ticket-thus making it impossible to vote for a presidential candidate from one party and a vice-presidential candidate from another party, as had previously been possible.

Disputes over military matters with Sir Sir William Johnson and the political intrigues of Thomas Pownall, who succeeded him to the Massachusetts governorship, led to his eventual recall.

In 1900 Seaman and Mauro succeeded in getting a judge to file an injunction that Berliner and Johnson stop making their products.

In 1973 Phillips died, and was succeeded by former missionary to Germany Jerald Johnson ( born 1916 ).

The John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations had considered attempting to destroy the Chinese program before it succeeded, but the USSR had refused to cooperate.

Had the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868 succeeded, he would have succeeded him as the 18th President of the United States.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

Other topics this season include the murder of a prostitute ; a teacher accused of molesting a child, who commits suicide due to inflammation of the story from the press ; a woman with an intellectual disability getting pregnant and burying her child ; the introduction of Bobby Johnson, after his brother is killed in a drug shootout ; a scam involving another one of Virgil ’ s friends ; a bounty hunter ; and a serial rapist stalking Sparta.

William Johnson ( 1817-1891 ) was a prime mover in getting the town incorporated in 1853.

In her 1997 autobiography, Graham comments several times about how close her husband was to politicians of his day ( he was instrumental, for example, in getting Johnson to be the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 1960 ), and how such personal closeness with politicians later became unacceptable in journalism.

* Michael Johnson – In a 2005 – 06 Championship game with Derby County, Warnock reacted to a challenge by Johnson on Paul Ifill and was accused of playing a part in getting the opposition player sent off.

Darren Johnson characterizes the lack of single leader as " just a ridiculous barrier in terms of getting our really important message across ".

EMI America took one listen and wasted no time in signing him, quickly getting The Michael Johnson Album out in 1978.

* A 2008 ad features the pit crews of Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson helping anchors Scott Van Pelt and Neil Everett getting ready for the next segment during the commercial.

Four games into the 1975 season and after getting a hit in his only at bat, Johnson was released by the Braves.

Sketches typically end with Mr. Johnson either walking away in a huff, getting hurt, or fainting ( which he does most of the time ) out of frustration and annoyance.

When Ban Johnson, a longtime friend, announced plans to form the American League, Griffith was one of the ringleaders in getting National League players to jump ship.

Celebrezze shaped HEW to fit Johnson Administration initiatives, including getting power from Congress to deny funds for any federal HEW program to any state or institution that practiced racial segregation.

Johnson was getting tired, and CBS and Paramount had enough episodes to put the series into syndication.

In his statement, he said that he felt obligated to fulfill his duties in Congress and assist Schuette and Johnson in getting to the bottom of the petition fraud.

In his time on Lewisham London Borough Council, Johnson has been successful in getting the council to adopt a Fair Trade policy.

Johnson did enough on a personal level to win a final title medal in 1982 and also won the League Cup again after getting the substitute's shirt for the final before he returned to Everton in the August of ' 82 for £ 100, 000.

Johnson was instrumental in getting Dwayne ( later dubbed " Rocky Maivia " after both Rocky Johnson's and Peter Maivia's ring names ) signed to a WWF developmental deal.

Johnson appears in two sequences: first in a scene in which he calls to congratulate Homer on saving the plant, and later in the episode in a basketball game when he " pulls a Homer " by accidentally getting the ball into the basket after slipping on the floor.

It had been almost six months since the last murder and Bunting began talking about " getting " Johnson and suggested that Vlassakis find a way to get him to the bank in Snowtown.

Frequently batting third in the order, right ahead of the dangerous hitter Tommy Davis, Johnson set career highs by playing in 152 games, getting 526 at-bats, 143 hits, 17 home runs, scoring 71 runs, and batting in 73.

In the 2005 – 06 season, however, he had a difficult time getting off the bench once again was traded to the New Jersey Nets just before the trading deadline in exchange for Marc Jackson, Linton Johnson, and cash considerations.