Andrew Johnson (PS-1)

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 - July 31, 1875) was Former United States and later Confederate States Senator from North Carolina. Johnson was a prominent early Confederate politician. As a Senator from North Carolina, Johnson was influential in persuading the North Carolina legislature to secede from the union. After the war he was an outspoken critic against all forms of manumission and abolition, as well as rapid industrialization, views that made him extremely popular with Conservatives. After the founding of the Whig Party, Johnson became the Democratic Party's golden (boy, and was selected as the Party's Presidential nominee in 1873. The only election in Confederate history to be decided by the House of Representatives would result in a loss for Johnson to war hero Robert E. Lee, a loss he is often quoted as attributable to "Damn Unionists" in his own party. In 1875, less than a year after losing the election, he suffered a massive stroke and died.