Andrew Johnson: Schroeder-Lein And Zuczek

Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson was a man of many uniques with being the only president of the United States to be impeached, never attended school, grew up in poverty, and accomplished his way back into the Senate six years after leaving the White House, as stated in Trefousse’s book
(p.13). Schroeder- Lein and Zuczek talk about, with even having his many accomplishments and numbered failures, Andrew Johnson is to be known to this day as one of the most unpopular and unsuccessful presidents of his time. Even having his failures, Johnson still had a successful political career ranging five crucial decades (p. xv). Andrew Johnson gives truth to the belief that in America, anyone can grow up to become president or governor. Born December
By 1834, the young tailor had served as town alderman and mayor of Greeneville and was fast making a name for himself as an aspiring politician. During the time when Andrew Johnson was trying to make a name for himself in the political world he opened his own tailoring shop, which “became a gathering place for those eager to voice their opinions or hear Johnson’s” (Schroeder-Lein, Zuczek p. xvi). Johnson considered himself a “Jacksonian Democrat”, as stated by Means, and he gained the support of local mechanics, artisans, and rural folk with his common-man tell-it-like-it-is style (p. 9). He quickly moved up to serve in his state 's legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, and as governor of
Johnson used the state as an example for reconstruction. After Lincoln made him the military governor of Tennessee, Johnson convinced the President to exempt Tennessee from the Emancipation Proclamation. By the summer of 1863, however, he began to favor emancipation as a war measure. Concerned about his chances for reelection, Lincoln felt that he needed a man like Johnson as his vice president to help balance the ticket in 1864. Lincoln 's enemies could not easily depict him as a tool of the abolitionists with Johnson as his running mate. Together, the two won a sweeping victory against Democratic candidate General George B. McClellan and his running mate, George Pendleton. In 1864 the Republicans, asserted that their National Union Party was for all loyal men, nominated Johnson, a Southerner and a Democrat, for Vice President (“Andrew