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Show Mrs! Joliai Among the Presidents who experienced difficult times in office was Andrew Johnson, a sell-eddcated man of great perseverance, born Dec. 29, 1S0S, in Raleigh. N. Car. JOHNSON ALSO lived in South Carolina and then moved to Tennessee, which he made his home. He was a member of the Senate when the Civil War began. Unlike most southeners, he remained in the Senate - infuriating in-furiating many back home. Lincoln liked him and he ran with Lincoln in 1864 and became vice president. When Lincoln was assassinated, he became President. LIKE Lincoln, he assumed the southern states had never been out of the Union, that iheir secession ordinances were invalid. And like Lin coln, he wished way back into n restore unity an,-But an,-But he was a' tantly by vindii political leader had him tried ment charges i-the i-the Chief Justin ONLY BY a, gin was he $a, peachmeni. H( reelection bui Tennessee aiu! Senate. He was then ran for a . seat in Teniie. defeated again But in 1874 legislature ekvi; Senate again, ' innate, for he , having devoted life to an effori the nation's j restore unity. i |