Andrew Johnson (Freemason)
Democratic. Politician. Freemason.
May 1868, He was the first President to ever be impeached. His trial in the Senate lead to him being acquitted by one vote. (Un-officially he was impeached for attempts to block legislation to grant civil rights to recently freed slaves in the south. Official charges brought against him were for firing his war secretary, Edwin Stanton, without permission from Congress and thereby violating a contemporaneous law that was in force for only a year.)[12]
President Johnson (Freemason) was impeached by Congress for pardoning 33rd Degree Albert Pike following Pike’s trial and conviction for scalping union soldiers during the Civil War. Some of the men under his command committed atrocities, scalping fallen Union soldiers. After further run-ins with his superiors in Richmond, Pike was reprimanded and resigned his position.[11]
1868, By suspending Edwin Stanton and removing him from his cabinet, without the consent of Congress, breached the Tenure of Office Act that resulted in Impeachment Proceedings.
1868, The Fourteenth Amendment Ratified stating that every person born in the US is a citizen. States must follow due process of law before taking away any citizen’s rights or property.
Nov 1867, President Johnson suspends Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War. They had had a series of disagreements about Reconstruction.
1867, Christopher Scholes invented the first practical and modern typewriter.
1867, Alaska was purchased from Russia for $7.2 million.
2 Mar 1867 - Tenure of Office Act passed by Congress to restict the power of the President to remove officer-holders without the approval of the Senate. Act introduced by George Williams. Repealled in 3 Mar 1887.
2 Mar 1867, Congress passes the Tenure of Office Act overriding President Johnson’s veto.
2 Mar 1867, Congress passes the first of the Reconstruction Acts overriding President Johnson’s veto.
Jan 1867, Nebraska joins the Union 1866.
1866, Red Cloud’s War (1866 to 1868).
1866, The emergence of the Carpetbaggers and the Scalawags
Mar 1866, The President vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866 adopting a lenient attitude towards the Southern States
24 Dec 1865, The Ku Klux Klan was founded.
Dec 1865, Ex-Confederate states enact their own ‘Black Codes’
Sep 1865, Takes up residence in the White House.
10 Jul 1865, Union Pacific Lays the First Rail of the Transcontinental Railroad.
On June 24, 1865, Pike (Freemason) applied for a pardon, disowning his earlier interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. He said he now planned “to pursue the arts of peace, to practice my profession, to live among my books, and to labour to benefit my fellows and my race by other than political courses”. President Andrew Johnson pardoned him on April 23, 1866.[15]
29 May 1865, Johnson grants amnesty. Johnson issues two proclamations summarizing his recommendations for the restoration of Confederate states to the Union. First, he grants amnesty to all white southerners who take a loyalty oath; by doing so, the southerners will regain their property. (High Confederate officials and southern planters owning property worth more than $20,000 are excluded from this option.) Second, Johnson outlines a reconstruction plan for North Carolina which becomes the blueprint for other Southern states. Johnson proposes to appoint provisional governors to the defeated states; under their direction, new constitutions would be drafted abolishing slavery and renouncing secession. Following the authorization of these new laws, the states would be accepted back into the Union.
29 May 1865, Congress granted general amnesty to many former Confederate soldiers, but, apparently because of some Anti-Masonic feeling, Albert Pike (Freemason) was excluded.[14]
23 May 1865, Celebrations in D.C. The close of the Civil War is celebrated in Washington, D.C. Johnson presides over a series of reviews of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Tennessee.
2 May 1865, Johnson issues a proclamation offering rewards for the arrests of Jefferson Davis, Jacob Thompson, and Clement C. Clay, Jr.
26 Apr 1865, John Wilkes Booth (Odd Fellows), the man who shot President Abraham Lincoln, is shot and killed in a tobacco barn in Virginia.
18 Apr 1865, General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to General Sherman near Durham in North Carolina.
15 April 1865, Following the assassination President Abraham Lincoln Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes 17th President of the United States. He is one of five Presidents who were never inaugurated.
15 Apr 1865 to 4 Mar 1869 - 17th President of the United States (VP: None)
4 Mar 1865 to 15 Apr 1865 - 16th Vice President of the United States by President Abraham Lincoln.**
12 Mar 1862 to 4 Mar 1865 - Military Governor of Tennesse by President Abraham Lincoln
8 Oct 1857 to 31 Jul 1875 - United States Senator from Tennessee.
Died 31 Jul 1875, from TBC. Age 66.
Skull and Bones / Others / Related - to be completed
William M. Evarts (S&B 1837)
1868 to 1869 - U.S. Attorney General
Constantine C. Esty (S&B 1845)
1867 to 1872 - Assessor of Internal Revenue
1862 to 1866 - Assessor of Internal Revenue
Green Clay (S&B 1859)
1862 to 1868 - Secretary of the U.S. Legation at Turin and Florence
James O. Putnam (S&B 1839)
1861 to 1866 - U.S. Consul in Le Havre, France.
[1] - Whitehouse.gov - President Andrew Johnson (Freemason)
[2] - Spartacus-educational.com - President Andrew Johnson (Freemason)
[3] - Millercenter.org - President Andrew Johnson (Freemason) - Key Events
[4] - Presidential-power.org - President Andrew Johnson (Freemason)
[5] - Britannica.com - President Andrew Johnson (Freemason)
[6] - FYI - Wiki - Andrew Johnson (Freemason)
[7] 17th President: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry reports that Johnson was “Initiated, Passed and Raised” in the Greeneville Lodge No. 119, now No. 3, Greenville, Tennessee, some time in May, 1851.1 President Johnson was impeached by Congress for pardoning 33rd degree Albert Pike following Pike’s trial and conviction for scalping union soldiers during the Civil War.
In 10,000 Famous Freemason we read of a reward given Johnson by Freemasonry for his pardon of Pike, “On June 20, 1867, he [President Johnson] received the 4th through 32nd degrees of the Scottish Rite at the executive mansion at the hands of Benjamin B. French, q.v., and A.T.C. Pierson. He thus became the first President to receive the Scottish Rite degrees. His close association with Freemasonry was one of the factors that led to his impeachment trial. The Anti-Mason Thaddeus Stevens was a ringleader in the impeachment proceedings against Johnson in 1868.”2
[7.1] - Mackey, The Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.
[7.2] - Denslow, 10,000 Famous Freemasons, 1957.
[8] - Find a Grave - Andrew Johnson (Freemason)
[12] - MSN.com - A brief history of impeachment: From Johnson to Trump by Sam Ball. Jan 20, 2020.
[[13] - Document - December 25, 1868.- Granting full pardon and amnesty to all persons engaged in the late rebellion.] By the President of the United States of America. A proclamation … Done at the City of Washington, the twenty-fifth day of December, in the year](https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.23602600/)
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