Authors: Andrew Johnson

1860–1877

Veto of the First Reconstruction Act

Source: Andrew Johnson, “Veto Message,” March 2, 1867. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://goo.gl/LbX7C2. I have examined the bill “to provide for the

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1860–1877

Letter to William Sharkey

Governor William L. Sharkey, Jackson, Miss. I am gratified to see that you have organized your Convention without difficulty. I hope that without delay your Convention will amend your State

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1860–1877

Annual Message to Congress (1868)

Message of the President of the United States, 40th Cong., 3rd sess., Congressional Globe, Appendix p. 1. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=087/llcg087.db&recNum=428 Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Upon the reassembling of Congress it

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1860–1877

Annual Message to Congress (1867)

Source: James D. Richardson, ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897. Volume VI (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1897), 558-81. . . . How far

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1860–1877

Annual Message to Congress (1866)

Message of the President of the United States, 39th Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Globe, Appendix p. 1. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=077/llcg077.db&recNum=620 Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: After a brief interval the Congress

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