Andrew Johnson was born on December 29th, 1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He stayed in Raleigh and grew up there with parents, Mary and Jacob Johnson. He had one brother, named William. Although he became the 17th president of the United States, Johnson never went to school. He got his training in an apprenticeship and taught himself how to read through books frequent customers would give to him. A few years after he got his internship, Andrew Johnson and few of his friends were throwing rocks at a tradesman's house just to cause a bit of trouble. When the tradesman threatened to call the police, Andrew Johnson fled to Carthage, North Carolina, which was sixty miles from Raleigh.
He worked as a tailor, which was a skill that his mother had taught him and William. When his family moved to Tennessee, there was no employment available for them, so he made their home into a tailoring shop. Andrew Johnson eventually met Eliza McCardle and the two got married on May 17th, 1827. Eliza......
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