To: Grand Old Partisan
Democrat President Andrew JohnsonActually, he was elected Vice President on the National Union ticket in 1864. He sought the Democrat Party nomination for President in 1868 but didn't get it.
To: rustbucket
Actually, Andrew Jackson Johnson was always a Democrat. His being elected on the National Union ticket made him no less an ex-Democrat than it made Abraham Lincoln as ex-Republican.
243 posted on
07/22/2003 2:59:00 PM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: rustbucket
CORRECTION:
Actually, Andrew Jackson Johnson was always a Democrat. His being elected on the National Union ticket made him no more an ex-Democrat than it made Abraham Lincoln as ex-Republican.
244 posted on
07/22/2003 3:01:02 PM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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