Andrew Johnson: A Resource Guide

Andrew Johnson, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, with table and chair. Mathew B. Brady, photographer. [between 1860 and 1875]. Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-B8184-10690

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America's Library

Designed for elementary and middle school students, America's Library provides the following stories related to Andrew Johnson:

Jump Back in Time: President Andrew Johnson Was Born in Raleigh, North Carolina

Jump Back in Time: Purchase of Alaska

Jump Back in Time: Vote to Impeach Andrew Johnson

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• Account of Lincoln's Assassination
• Andrew Johnson as Iago

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Performing Arts Encyclopedia

The PAE is a guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress and provides information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials. The PAE includes the following sheet music related to Andrew Johnson:

• Andy Veto
• Three Cheers for Abe and Andy
• Vice President Andrew Johnson's Grand March

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Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)

Search PPOC using the subject heading Johnson, Andrew, 1809-1875 to find digital images related to Johnson such as prints, photographs, and political cartoons. Search all text fields in PPOC using the phrase Andrew Johnson to locate additional images.

Today in History

March 30

On March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars.

April 14

Shortly after 10 P.M. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.

May 16

On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate voted 35 to 19, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict President Andrew Johnson of "high crimes and misdemeanors," as he was charged under the eleventh article of impeachment.

December 29

Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina on December 29, 1808.

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