Show IRA e leased eased by western newspaper New paper union historic tailor shop gilb other day president roose 1 velt valt took time out from his grave d duties ude s as chief executive of a nation at war to sign a proclamation which gave to america another national monument so far as looks ITHE are concerned it Is perhaps one of 0 the most unimpressive of our patriotic shrines for it Is a simple clap boarded house wath a big brick chimney at one end and it was once a combined homo and tailor shop I 1 F but this little structure in greene ville tenn Is probably the most historic tailor shop in all these united states for it was hero that andrew johnson started on the road which was to lead him even dually to tho the white house in wash ington and to a fame that is unique of him it 4 has been said that andrew johnson ho he was the most courageous and consistent statesman of his day and next to lincoln he did more to preserve the union than any oth er cr civil official of his time moreover andrew johnson had one of the most extraordinary records of any citizen n of the united states it is doubtful if any other american except possibly his fellow andrew jackson ever occupied as many different positions of public trust during his 40 years of public life he held with integrity and ability every type of office under the constitution legis dative executive judicial and military here they are alderman 1827 30 mayor 1830 35 state representative 1835 39 state senator united states representative 1843 53 governor 1853 57 united states senator 1857 63 brig adler adier general 1862 military governor 1862 64 vice president of the united states 1865 president of the united states 1865 1805 69 and uni united te d states senator 1875 such was the record of a man who never went to school a day in his anfel of all american success stories it Is doubtful if any can L le be e found to match that of andrew johnson born in raleigh N C decem bet bei 29 1808 johnson lost his father pohen when he was four years old and by the time he was 10 years old and apprenticed to a tailor he was the chiet chief support of his mother and ill his younger brother after serving si six of the eight years of his apprenticeship johnson and his brother ran tway away whereupon the future president was branded in a newspaper advertisement as a fugitive from justice with a price of 10 upon his head A year later young johnson Jre turned to raleigh made a satisfactory adjustment with his bonds anan an and then obtaining an old porse horse and wagon took the family nd ind their scanty household goods over the mountains into tennessee s at Gree greensville greeneville neville he set act up his own allor shop in the little house which as recently made a national menu ent and as he sat cross legged on his Is tailors table he hired the edu bated loafers of the village to read astory to him but it was not until he e married euza eliza Mc mccardell CardelI in 1827 pat hat he received any formal aduca ion his wife taught him to read soon after the outbreak of the war between the states johnson at the bequest of president lincoln gave ip p his seat in the senate to become mill military tary governor of tennessee ee two years later he was chosen is s the vice presidential running nate ate tor for lincoln i in an effort to old lold the border states he became resident after lincoln was alsus assas and when he tried to carry ut the reconstruction policies of the reat real emancipator he was bitterly assailed by tho the radical republicans no ho were determined to punish the defeated southern states tor for ig 9 from the union johnson resisted every move that ley ey made until finally they used his inoval of edwinm edwin M stanton see sec detary of war from his cabinet as n i excuse for bringing a bill of im ashment ach each ment happily tor for the country icy ey tailed failed to remove him from ce by the narrow margin of on one ote te in the senate and when he aln shel hed his term of office in 1869 the tate ate 0 of f T tennessee en bessee showed its faith him by electing him to the sen te 0 again six years later ile he died on afterwards on july 31 1875 ri nd his tennessee neighbors burled buried m on a hilltop near rapped in an american flag with copy of the united states on n which he had upheld so valiant servin serving 9 as a pillow tor for his eter il sleep johnson Jo linson was one of the staunchest staunch cst cl benders blenders of the common man who er sat in the white house when i was nominated on the ticket with neolan he is said to have exclaimed abat at will the aristocrats do with a il splitter for president and a tat tal r for vice president once when aking g to some of the nashville he said he believed me inc acs anias ics to be better than tha other men by Y then governor did you make ers out of your two sons ked ed one of the aristocrats be luse Us they had bad not cot sense enough to mechanics replied johnson joanson Job |