Episode #168: Andrew Johnson #3: A Southerner Takes a Stand (1853-1862)

Andrew Johnson #3: A Southerner Takes a Stand (1853-1862); Topics covered include: Governor of Tennessee (two terms), Eliza Johnson contracts tuberculosis, marriage of daughter Martha Johnson to David Patterson, U.S. Senator, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Homestead Act, election of 1860, Southern secession, only Senator from a seceded state to remain loyal to the Union, firing on Fort Sumter, and the start of the Civil War

Key people: Gustavus Henry, Eliza Johnson, Charles Johnson, Robert Johnson, Martha Johnson, David Patterson, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln

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