Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 - July 31, 1875) was the sixteenth Vice President (1865) and the seventeenth President of the United States (1865-1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Johnson was president during part of the Reconstruction following the Civil War, and his conciliatory policies towards the defeated rebels and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with the Congressional Republicans, leading the House of Representatives to impeach him in 1868; he was the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently acquitted by a single vote in the Senate.
