He took office after the assassination of abraham lincoln in. No president, not even lincoln, rose from lower depths of poverty and. Johnson, who served from 1865 to 1869, was.
Born in a log cabin in north carolina to nearly illiterate parents, andrew johnson did not master the basics of reading, grammar, or math until he met his wife at the age of seventeen. A democrat, he became lincoln’s. Andrew johnson was the 17th president and assumed office after the assassination of abraham lincoln.
The 16th vice president, he assumed the presidency. Johnson took the oath of office as the seventeenth president of the united states. Before becoming lincoln's vice president he served as a senator from tennessee.