Andrew Johnson #1: A Mudsill (1808-1843); Topics covered include: Parents, poverty throughout youth, father dies, apprenticed as a tailor, abandoned apprenticeship, leaves for Tennessee, settles in Greenville, sets up tailor shop, self-educates, marries Eliza McArdle, birth of first two children, elected to the town council, becomes mayor, elected to the state legislature, tailor shop thrived, joins the Democratic Party, and procures his first two slaves
Key people: Jacob Johnson, Mary Johnson, Turner Daughtry, James Selby, William Johnson, Sarah Work, Eliza (McArdle) Johnson, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren
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