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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 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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* " Andrew Johnson ", White House Biography
Andrew R. Cobb designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916 ; Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.
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 ".
* 1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives.
In the 1870s in the United States, in the aftermath of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and his near-removal from office, it was speculated that the United States, too, would move from a presidential system to a semi-presidential or even parliamentary one, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives becoming the real center of government as a quasi-prime minister.
The House managers are seated beside the quarter-circular tables on the left and the president's personal counsel on the right, much in the fashion of President Andrew Johnson's trial.
In June 1834, Speaker of the House Andrew Stevenson resigned, leaving the spot for speaker open.
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.
The House has thus far impeached two presidents: Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998.
Independent candidate Andrew Wilkie, an anti-pokies campaigner, was elected to the Australian House of Representatives seat of Denison at the 2010 federal election.
Only once since then has the House of Representatives chosen the President: In 1824, Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes, John Quincy Adams ( son of John Adams ) 84, William H. Crawford 41 and Henry Clay 37.
Andrew Jackson expected the House to vote for him, as he had won a plurality of the popular and electoral votes.
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.
* February 24 – After Andrew Johnson tries to dismiss United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, he becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives.
* December 16 – Benjamin Andrew, American Continental Congressman for Georgia and member of the Georgia House of Representatives ( b. 1713 )
It was also the only presidential election in which the candidate who received the most electoral votes did not become president ( since Andrew Jackson's plurality of electoral votes was insufficient to prevent the election from being thrown into the House of Representatives ).
Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes in the Election of 1824, but still lost to John Quincy Adams when the election was deferred to the House of Representatives.
In a prelude to the presidential election, the Jacksonians bolstered their numbers in Congress in the 1826 Congressional elections ; Jackson ally Andrew Stevenson was chosen as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives over Adams ally Speaker John W. Taylor.
Furthermore, when no candidate received an Electoral College majority in the 1824 presidential election causing the president to be decided by the House, Speaker Clay threw his support to John Quincy Adams instead of Andrew Jackson, thereby ensuring the former's victory.
This was reflected in the make-up of his five-member war cabinet, which included three Conservatives, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords, Lord Curzon ; Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, Andrew Bonar Law ; and Minister without Portfolio, Lord Milner.
* Andrew Bonar Law – Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons
Because of the unusually large number of candidates receiving electoral votes, no candidate secured a majority and the tie between the two front runners, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, was broken in the House of Representatives.

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* Andrew Ainslie Common ( 1841 – 1903 ), built his own very large reflecting telescopes and demonstrated that photography could record astronomical features invisible to the human eye.
The National Stadium, which was also known as the Welsh National Rugby Ground, was designed by Osborne V Webb & Partners and built by G A Williamson & Associates of Porthcawl and Andrew Scott & Company of Port Talbot.
Above the Porters ' lodge is the Perne Library, named in honour of Andrew Perne, a former Master, and originally built in 1590 to house the collection that he donated to the college.
That same year in San Antonio, Texas, a French immigrant named Andrew Muhl built an ice-making machine to help service the expanding beef industry before moving it to Waco in 1871.
The Carnegie library, the former public library built with money donated by Andrew Carnegie to the city of Reims after World War I, is a remarkable example of Art Deco in France.
Businessmen such as Mark Hanna, sugar trust magnate Henry O. Havemeyer, banker J. P. Morgan, steel makers Charles M. Schwab and Andrew Carnegie, and railroad owners Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould created corporations that influenced legislation at the local, state, and federal levels as they built businesses that spanned multiple states and communities.
Other entries in the competition were three boats built by Andrew Jackson Higgins of Higgins Industries in New Orleans.
Around the western-central area is Independence Square and Promenade Gardens, the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology, the National Library ( built by Andrew Carnegie ), the Bank of Guyana, Company Path Garden, the National Museum of Guyana and State House ( built 1852 ) where the President resides, and St. George's Anglican Cathedral.
According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, the first vessel called a schooner was built by builder Andrew Robinson and launched in 1713 from Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Fort Lewis, named for General Andrew Lewis, of what is now Roanoke County, was built west of the town in 1752.
The historic Central Library on the High Street was one of many built with money donated by the Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, whose portrait bust can be seen on the exterior of the building.
An important historical site is Fort Jackson, built in 1822 as recommended by General Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812.
This town is named after a fort that was built under the order of General Andrew Jackson.
The Hanford Carnegie Museum was built in 1905 as one of the many Carnegie libraries that were funded by the steel industry magnate, Andrew Carnegie.
The Carnegie Library in Salem was one of nearly 2, 000 libraries built in the United States including 164 in Indiana in the early 20th century with funds donated by steel conglomerate Andrew Carnegie.
Andrew Whistler built a sawmill here in 1855, that was operated by persons named Dunning and Hopkins.
In 1837 Andrew Watson brought his family to Cannon and built the first farm in the township.
Colonel Andrew Mack, a native of Detorit, bought Meldrum and Park's mill begun and built his home along the St. Clair River.
The town's industrial economy began in 1873, when Andrew Carnegie built the Edgar Thomson Steel Works on the historic site of Braddock's Field in what is now North Braddock, Pennsylvania.
In 1828, the Wayside Inn was built, and the first doctor, Dr. Andrew Bedford, set up practice, and built a house which stands today on Main Street.
N. Garrison and Andrew J. Eldon built the first store, located outside the old storehouse, in June 1857.

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