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21 lug 2019 · Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808–July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth president of the United States. He took office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and was president through the contentious early days of Reconstruction. His vision of Reconstruction was rejected and his presidency was not successful.
Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1808. Three years later, his father died after rescuing two men from drowning. The Johnson family was very poor, so Andrew did not attend school. At age 14, he was bound as a tailor’s apprentice with his older brother. Before long, the brothers got into trouble and ran away with two other ...
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24 dic 1999 · MP3 audio - Standard. Price: See all on Life Portraits Johnson, Andrew. In the seventeenth in a series on American presidents, the life and career of Andrew Johnson were discussed. Mr. Benedict ...
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Although Andrew Johnson's presidency was marked by significant chaos and administrative ineptitude on the home front, Secretary of State William H. Seward ably managed its foreign affairs. In 1866, the Russian minister to the United States indicated that Czar Alexander II might be willing to sell Russian holdings in North America—nearly 500,000 square miles.
Benjamin Harrison: Life in Brief. Benjamin Harrison was born in 1833 in North Bend, Ohio, to a prominent family that had a legacy of political activism. After all, he was the grandson of the nation's ninth President, William Henry Harrison. Raised on a farm adjacent to his grandfather's vast estate, Harrison believed he was destined for greatness.
Of the four lost Presidents—Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, and Harrison—Garfield is best remembered for his dramatic assassination a mere 100 days after he assumed office. From Poverty to Politics. The youngest of five children born on a poor farm on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio, Garfield is perhaps the poorest man ever to have become President.
Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States—becoming the first African American to serve in that office—on January 20, 2009. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School.
