This Day in History: President Andrew Johnson Is Impeached (Sat., Feb. 24)
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This Day in History:, President Andrew
Johnson Is Impeached.
February 24, 1868.
Johnson assumed the
presidency..
Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War, defending the nation as a constitutional union, defeating the insurgent Confederacy, abolishing slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.
This Day in History:, President Andrew
Johnson Is Impeached.
February 24, 1868.
Johnson assumed the
presidency..