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- Martha Johnson Patterson: Hostess of the Andrew Johnson-White HouseOf her family’s role in the White House in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Martha Johnson Patterson, daughter of President Andrew Johnson, admitted, “We are plain people, from the mountains of Tennessee, called here for a short time by a national calamity.”
One of the five children of and , Martha Johnson occasionally served as White House hostess throughout her father’s administration. She attended school in nearby Georgetown and visited the White House during the Polk administration while her father represented Tennessee in the House of Representatives.
In 1855 she married David Trotter Patterson, who, from 1866 to 1869 would succeed his father-in-law by representing Tennessee in the United States Senate...
Andrew Johnson: Reconstruction Crisis
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- Andrew Johnson: Reconstruction CrisisThe Civil War was essentially over when Johnson became President. Radical Republicans were eager to learn about his policies. His plan gave amnesty to ex confederates and acceptance to seceded states. Freed slaves neither protection nor rights. Distributed by A&E Television Networks.
