Vice President-elect JD Vance will be the 50th ... Others, like John Tyler and Andrew Johnson, squandered nearly full terms in power. Van Buren, Nixon, Bush I, and Joe Biden succeeded at the ...
Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Gerald Ford) were not re-elected as President at the following election. George H W Bush was ...
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The pair lost to Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, and Pendleton’s term as an Ohio congressman ended shortly after. Nixon served as the second youngest vice president in history at 39 years ...
Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office.
When John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865, he wanted accomplice George Atzerodt to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson. The VP was alone in a hotel; Atzerodt could have done so ...
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President ... thought it prudent to limit President Andrew Johnson’s pro-Southern actions.