Andrew Johnson National Historic Site announced that its cemetery is closed to all access after damage caused by Friday night ...

to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Days later, a House committee drew up nine articles of impeachment against the 17th president.

On this day in 1868, the Senate put Andrew Johnson, who had become the nation’s 17th president after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, on trial following his impeachment by the House.

The 17th president defied Congress ... In an attempt to forge some national unity, President Lincoln, a Republican, appointed Johnson, a pro-Union Democrat, military governor of Tennessee in ...

The next day, Johnson became the 17th president, taking the oath of office in his hotel room. SIEGEL: He made a statement afterwards, and we have a reenactment of it from the Andrew Johnson ...

Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth President of ... High above the hill overlooking Greenville are the graves of the 17th President of the United States and his family. He was buried with a ...

After the war, he marched with his fellow soldiers in the Grand Review of the Armies, passing President Andrew Johnson in the reviewing stand. She might also have added that Johnson, the 17th ...