Andrew+Johnson

=﻿Andrew Johnson= Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Johnson helped found the Democratic party in his region and was elected to the town council in 1829, then as mayor in 1831. When the cicvil war began, he was the only senator from a Confederate state who did not leave Congress to return to the South. Finally in 1875, an alliance of Republicans and a faction of the Democratic party in the Tennessee legislature again elected him to the U.S. Senate. He served only five months before he died.

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