The first president to be impeached, which Southern Democrat assumed office upon Lincoln's assassination?

A one-time tailor who didn't learn to read until his wife taught him as an adult, Johnson was an unlikely choice for Lincoln's 1865 campaign ticket. But Lincoln was interested in mending the nation in the aftermath of the Civil War and picked the Tennessee senator in a gesture of unity. It was a mistake.

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