Andrew Johnson's Presidential Life Andrew Johnson became president in 1829. He became a Greenville alderman along with a tanner and a plaster. Andrew Johnson was the first president to be impeached, and he became chief exeutive upon the assisination of Abraham Lincoln. At the end of the Civil War, Johnson inherited a wartime dispute between Lincoln and congress over how to treat the South after the war. A lot of Republicans in congress opposed Johnson's views, …showed first 75 words of 478 total…

…showed last 75 words of 478 total…ex-Confederate general. For the second in time his life, Johnson lost a popular election. But he won election to the US senate in 1875 and thus became the only former president to some as a senator. During a visit to Tennessee, Johnson suffered a paralytic stroke. He died a few days later on July 31, 1875. Johnson was burried in Greenville, wrapped in a US flag and with his well worn copy of the constution under his head.