Posted on September 21, 2009 by Bob Timmermann
President #11, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #12 Looks Like My Work Here is Done Between the time of Andrew Jackson and before the time of Abraham Lincoln, American Presidents were an undistinguished lot, to put it kindly. No one served more than one term. Most are forgotten. However, one man in the job managed to stand [...]
Filed under: Antebellum presidents | Tagged: Childless presidents, Democrats, Governors, Guys Henry Clay Didn't Like, Mexican War, North Carolina, Representative, Speaker of the House, Tennessee | 19 Comments »
Posted on July 13, 2009 by Bob Timmermann
President #17, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #41 You Cannot Stop Reading This Unless You Have Prior Approval of the U.S. Senate Andrew Johnson’s story could have been one of the most inspiring in American history. Here was a man born in to extreme poverty, with no formal education at all, and, through very hard work and [...]
Filed under: Reconstruction Presidents | Tagged: Civil War, Democrats, Governors, Impeachment, Military Governors, North Carolina, Representative, Senator, Tennessee, Union Party, Vice Presidents | 6 Comments »
