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At Lincoln’s death Johnson became president

Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m.; Andrew Johnson became president.

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Lincoln re-elected

Abraham Lincoln was elected to a second term as president, with 212 of 233 electoral votes and 55 percent of the popular vote. The 1864 presidential election was one of the most critical in American history. At stake was whether the war would end in unconditional surrender or a negotiated settlement. Deeply anxious about the election’s outcome, Republicans and pro-war Democrats formed the National Union Party, which re-nominated Lincoln and selected Andrew Johnson for vice president. The Democrats nominated General George B. McClellan, who...

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Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson of Tennessee was the only southern senator not to embrace secession and the Confederacy. In 1864, Johnson, a Democrat, became President Abraham Lincoln’s vice president; Lincoln hoped that Johnson’s vice presidency would appeal to both Unionists and Democrats in the border states. Upon Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, Johnson became president. As president, he instituted some of the first actions of Reconstruction, including his proclamation of...

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Ulysses S. Grant

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William Seward

William Henry Seward (1801–1872) was a US senator from New York and later secretary of state in the Cabinet of President Abraham Lincoln. Seward was an abolitionist, and he helped Lincoln revise the Emancipation Proclamation before it was issued. Seward was also attacked on the night of Lincoln’s assassination but survived to serve as secretary of state to Andrew Johnson. In that office he negotiated the 1867 purchase of Alaska.

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Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner (1811–1874) was a Radical Republican senator and reformer who fought for abolition and rights for African Americans. Sumner was born in Boston and attended Harvard Law School. He began his first term in the US Senate in 1852. He immediately denounced the Compromise of 1850 in his first major speech. In May 1856, he delivered another anti-slavery speech. Focusing on the “Crime against Kansas,” Sumner denounced the events in “Bloody Kansas” as well as his pro-slavery colleagues. Among the people Sumner criticized in his speech...