Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson was born in the year 1808, in the town of Raleigh, North Carolina. He grew in poverty, and was apprenticed to a tailor as a boy. Later in his life he and his family ran away from the town of Raleigh, North Carolina, where they found themselves in Greeneville, Tennessee. There he opened up his own little tailor shop, and made a comfortable amount of money to support his family. He later married a …

…delivered the last speech he was to make. He vigorously attacked President Grant’s policies and third-term ambitions. Johnson closed his speech with the words “Let peace and prosperity be restored to the land. May God bless this people; may God save the Constitution.”(Encarta Last years) Soon after, the Senate recessed, and Johnson returned to Tennessee. While visiting his daughter, he suffered a paralytic stroke. He died in 1875, and he was buried in Greeneville.