Object Details Artist Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 Sitter Andrew Johnson, 29 Dec 1808 - 31 Jul 1875 Exhibition Label When Andrew Johnson became president following Abraham Lincoln’s ...

Object Details Artist Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 Publication Harper's Weekly, active 1857 - 1916 Sitter Andrew Johnson, 29 Dec 1808 - 31 Jul 1875 Edwin McMasters Stanton, 19 Dec 1814 - 24 ...

Johnson's impeachment in 1868 was the culmination of a bitter dispute between the president and the Republican-controlled House over Reconstruction following the Civil War.