Title: Photograph of Andrew Johnson's Tailor Shop

Date/Date Range :   undated

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

The black and white photograph is labeled "Andrew Johnson's tailor shop" and is undated.

Call number: MS-2392

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

Aquisition Information:

This photograph was purchased by Special Collections in March 2004.

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], Photograph of Andrew Johnson's Tailor Shop, MS-2392. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

Born December 29, 1808, Andrew Johnson began his political career in Greeneville, TN. After serving as alderman and mayor, Johnson successfully ran for a seat in the lower house of the state legislature in 1835. After serving three terms in the state Senate, Johnson moved to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served for ten years, 1843-1853. He also served as Governor of Tennessee from 1853-1857. In the fall of 1857, he was chosen as a U.S. Senator.

In 1861, Johnson returned to East Tennessee to fight the surging secessionist movement, joining people such as William G. Brownlow and Horace Maynard in his support of the Union. After a June referendum in which Tennesseans voted for secession, Johnson made his way back to Washington.

After the Federal capture of Forts Henry and Donelson and the occupation of Nashville in February 1862, however, President Lincoln sent Johnson back to Tennessee to serve as military governor, a position in which he was charged to restore civil government and bring the state back to the Union. Lincoln also placed Johnson on the ticket in the 1864 election as his vice-presidential nominee. After Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, Johnson was sworn in as the seventeenth president.

This collection contains a single black and white photograph, without a date, labeled "Andrew Johnson's Tailor Shop" in Greenville, Tennessee. Other Andrew Johnson materials may be found in MS collections 216, 829, 2213 and 2284. A larger version of this picture may be found in MS 788, Box 23, Folder 2 ½.

• Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875.
• Tennessee, East -- History -- Greene County -- Photographs.