Episode #170: Andrew Johnson #5: Lincoln's Second VP (1864-1865)

Andrew Johnson #5: Lincoln's Second VP (1864-1865); Topics covered include: Military Governor of Tennessee, son Charles Johnson is killed, election of 1860, nominated for Vice President on the National Union ticket, Abraham Lincoln and Johnson win the election, completes revision to the Tennessee Constitution, humiliation at inauguration, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his army, Lincoln is assassinated, Johnson is sworn is as the 17th President of the United States

Key people: Charles Johnson, George McClellan, John Fremont, Hannibal Hamlin, Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, William Sherman, George Thomas, Edwin Stanton, Gideon Welles, Zachariah Chandler, Leonard Farwell, James O'Beirne, William Seward, William Petersen, and Salmon Chase

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