Andrew Johnson died on 31 July 1875 in Elizabethton, aged 66. The 17th President of the United States, Johnson was a self-taught tailor from North Carolina who rose to become a Tennessee senator and the only Southern senator to remain loyal to the Union. He became Lincoln's vice president in 1865 and president after Lincoln's assassination. His lenient approach to the defeated South and opposition to civil rights for freed slaves put him at odds with the Republican Congress, which overrode his vetoes and passed the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1868 the House impeached him, and the Senate acquitted him by a single vote. His administration did purchase Alaska from Russia in 1867. He later returned to the Senate.
Before and after
- 20 May 1875Metre Convention
- 20 May 1875Founding of International Bureau of Weights and Measures
- 6 June 1875Birth of Thomas Mann
- 26 July 1875Birth of Carl Jung
- 31 July 1875Death of Andrew Johnson
- 4 August 1875Death of Hans Christian Andersen
- 1 September 1875Birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 20 September 1875Ganghwa Island incident
- 31 October 1875Birth of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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