Photograph by Brady, Washington. Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth President of the United States, was born in North Carolina, in 1808. As a youth he was bound out to a cruel master from whom, at length, he ran away. In "Notable Men of Tennessee," Oliver P. Temple has written a biographical sketch of Johnson denying the commonly accepted report that he was unable to read at the time of his marriage. Settling in Tennessee, he followed the trade of a tailor, but being a man of great ambition, he was elected to many offices in his adopted state. In 1842 he was elected to Congress; in 1857 he entered the United States Senate. In 1862, after the defeat of the Confederate armies in Tennessee, Lincoln made Johnson military governor of that state. He died in 1875.
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