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Johnson, Alfred Sidney

journalist, author, was born Dec. 15, 1860, in Canada. He has been a successful educator; and is now the editor of Current History, a valuable magazine published by the New England Publishing company of Boston, Mass. a JOHNSON, ANDREW, president of the United States, was born seventeenth Dec. 29, 1808, in Raleigh, N. C. At the age of ten years he was apprenticed to tailor, with whom he remained seven years. He never attended school, but in 1827 he married Miss Eliza McCardle, who taught him to write and cipher. In 1826 he removed to Granville, Tenn., and was elected alderman of was that village in 1828-29. In 1830 he was elected mayor, and held the office three years. In 1835 he was elected to the state legislature , was defeated in 1837, and elected again in ed again in 1839. In 1841 he was elected to the state senate, and in 1843 to the national house of representatives, which office he held, by successive reelections, for ten years. In 1853 he was elected governor of Tennessee, and reelected in 1855. At the expiration of his gubernatorial term, in 1857, he was elected United States senator by the Tennessee legislature.

In 1862 he was appointed military governor of Tennessee. He was nominated for vice-president at the Baltimore convention, June 8, 1864. Being a successful candidate, he took the oath of office March 4, 1865. Upon the death of President Lincoln he became president, and took the oath of office April 15, 1865.

He was impeached by the house of representatives resentatives Feb. 24, 1868, by a vote of nays. The following representatives were chosen as managers, on the part of the house, to conduct the bill of impeachment before the senate: Messrs.

John A.

John A. Bingham, of Ohio; George S. of Massachusetts; Benjamin Franklin Butler, of Massachusetts; Thaddeus Stevens , of Pennsylvania; Thomas Williams, of Pennsylvania; John A.

Logan, of Illinois, and James F. Wilson, of Iowa. The counsel for the president were Messrs. Benjamin R. Curtis, of Massachusetts; William M. Evarts, of New York; William S. Groesbeck, of Ohio; Thomas A. R. Nelson, of Tennessee, and of Ohio. The trial was begun March 30, 1868, before the United States senate , sitting as a court of impeachment, presided over by Chief Justice Chase.

President Johnson was acquitted by the senate May 26, by a vote of 19 to 35, the constitution requiring a vote of two-thirds two-thirds to convict. President Johnson and Secretary Stanton quarreled over reconstruction questions, and on Aug. 5, 1867, the president requested him to resign, which the secretary refused to do.

He gave way, under protest, Aug. 12, to General U. S.

General U. S. Grant as secretary of war senate reinstated Secretary Stanton Jan. 13, 1868. On Feb. 21, 1868, General Lorenzo Thomas was ap- Secretary Stanton still refused to vacate. pointed secretary of war ad interim, but Johnson's Johnson's impeachment followed, and on Stanton resigned. On the presidenc 4th of March, 1869, he retired from the to his home in Granville, Tenn. In 1870 he was a candidate before the Tennessee legislature for United States senator, but was defeated by two votes.

In 1872 he was a candidate for representative in congress, and was defeated.

In 1875 he was elected to the United States senate, and took his seat March 4, and died July 31, 1875. Johnson held office thirty-six years. He was probably worth $50,000.

JOHNSON, ANDREW WALLACE, naval officer, was born Feb. 24, 1826, in midshipman in 1841. He was made lieu- Washington, D. C. He was appointed tenant-commander in 1862; and was captain in 1874.

He died June 14, 1887, in Washington Washington, D. C.