Title: Andrew Johnson Papers

Date/Date Range :   1833-1875

Extent: 1.25 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists of three series of materials related to President Andrew Johnson, and his two sons Charles and Robert. These materials are dated between 1833 and 1875. This collection contains some of President Johnson's business and personal papers.

Call number: MS-2073

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Collection is property of Special Collections.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Andrew Johnson Papers, MS-2073. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of three series:

1. Series I: Andrew Johnson
2. Series II: Charles Johnson
3. Series III: Robert Johnson

Andrew Johnson served as the republic's seventeenth president. Mr. Johnson was born in Greenville, Tennessee, educated as an attorney and later served in the Tennessee General Assembly. Johnson further served in the offices of governor of Tennessee, U. S. Representative and U. S. Senator. He served as Vice- President of the United States during the Civil War upon Lincoln's assassination; Johnson became the new president, and was President during the turbulent early Reconstruction Era. After leaving the White House Johnson uncharacteristically returned to politics and served as a Tennessee's Senator and died in 1875.

Charles Johnson was the first-born son of Andrew and Eliza (McCardle) Johnson. He was born in Greenville, Tennessee in 1830. Before the Civil War, he was living in Nashville Tennessee and training to become a pharmacist. When the Civil War broke out, he was in Greenville, Tennessee and he became part of the East Tennessee Unionist movement. Mr. Johnson was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1863 and he died as a result of injuries caused by a fall from a horse.

Robert Johnson was the second son of Andrew and Eliza Johnson. He worked as an attorney and served in the Tennessee General Assembly. During the Civil War he was a Colonel in the Union Army. He resigned his army commission in 1864 to serve as his father's private secretary. In 1869, while on a trip to Greenville, Tennessee, Mr. Johnson died of an alcohol/laudanum overdose.

This collection consists of three series of materials related to Andrew Johnson. These papers belonged to President Andrew Johnson and his two sons, Charles and Robert. Both of his sons served in the Union army in different capacities. Series I contains the business and personal receipts Andrew Johnson. Series II contains Charles Johnson's business receipts. Series III is Robert Johnson's personal journal, calling card, and business receipts.

• Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875.
• Presidents -- United States.