BGuthrie Photos: TN -- Greeneville -- Andrew Johnson NHS -- Early Home

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1. AJHSEH_050305_019.JPG: An Early Home Andrew Johnson National Historic Park Andrew Johnson and his family lived in this two-story brick house from some time in the 1830s until 1851. During these years, Johnson's life changed drastically as he ventured from the tailoring trade into politics. After being elected alderman of Greenville, he became mayor. From then on his rise was steady – to state representative, state senator, and United States representative. In 1853 he was elected governor of Tennessee and was sent to the United States Senate in 1857. Exhibits inside this Early Home explore the years and events prior to Johnson's presidency. These include early family life and history, Johnson's apprenticeship and move to Greenville, and his political career prior to the presidency.
2. AJHSEH_050305_051.JPG: Town Alderman to Vice President: Road to the Presidency Andrew Johnson's election as alderman in 1829 marked the beginning of a long political career as a "spokesman for the people." In 1835, after serving as mayor, he was sent to the Tennessee General Assembly, where he served two terms in the house and one in the senate. In 1843, Johnson was elected United States Representative and served five consecutive terms. In 1853, he went on to serve as governor of Tennessee for two consecutive terms, leaving in 1857 when he was sent to the United States Senate. Until this point in his career, Johnson had been associated primarily with Tennessee and the South. He was a supporter of Southern interests, opposing expanded federal power over the states. Yet he also favored a strict interpretation of the Constitution, and for him the Constitution and the Union were inseparable. From Military Governor to Vice President: In 1862, when Nashville was captured by Union forces during the Civil War, Lincoln appointed Johnson, the Southern unionist, to serve as Tennessee's military governor. Johnson had been given a very difficult task. How could he ensure the state's return to its position as a loyal member of the Union when most Tennesseans were opposed to it? With few instructions on how to proceed, and having tried more peaceful approaches, he ruled using threats, intimidation, and banishment. For example, he required Tennesseans to sign an oath of loyalty to the Union as a condition for receiving business licenses and other permits related to many of the necessities of everyday life. Many Southerners considered Johnson to be uncompromising and tyrannical during this period. Despite Johnson's slow progress in restoring civil government in Tennessee, Northerners, impressed by his commitment to the Union, nominated Johnson as Lincoln's running mate. This was done to win support in the upper South. In 1865, Andrew Johnson became vice president of the United States.
3. AJHSEH_050305_057.JPG: Fiscal Conservative: Johnson's conservative view of the Constitution, his devotion to the common man, and his faith in the American ideal of self-reliance, of which his life was a fine example, shaped his fiscal policies throughout his career. Johnson consistently opposed high tariffs, convinced they helped big business but made goods more expensive for the working classes. Johnson fought federal government intervention in economic matters, such as road and canal building, even though they were popular enterprises in the mid-nineteenth century. He not only saw these activities as an unconstitutional expansion of federal power, but as costly projects burdensome to ordinary taxpayers and an interference with individual initiative. Too much government intervention, he felt, would destroy the self-reliant spirit. In the Tennessee state assembly, as Tennessee's governor, and in the U.S. House of Representatives, Johnson emerged as a fighter for economy in government. On the federal level, he attempted to reduce the number of clerks in government departments, opposed reimbursement to government employees for travel costs, and wanted to lower federal salaries. An advocate of economy in government, Johnson opposed funding for the Smithsonian Institution.
4. AJHSEH_050305_060.JPG: Andrew Johnson's Beliefs: Constitutionalist: Johnson considered the U.S. Constitution a sacred blueprint for government in America. He strongly--some say stubbornly--believed in it and felt it his duty to honor and uphold its provisions. Johnson consistently opposed legislation designed to expand the federal government's role in state governments' affairs, whether it was a question of voting qualifications, slaveholding, or federal assistance for roads or harbors. He believed these and many other enterprises and decisions belonged in state hands in accordance with a Constitution that reserved to the states jurisdiction over all matters not specifically delegated to the federal government. Johnson's staunch defense of states' rights and limited federal government suited his Southern constituents and won their approval. Yet Johnson also believed that secession from the Union was unwise as well as unconstitutional. He thought that Southern interests, including that of slavery, were far safer in the Union and under the Constitution than they were outside them. The South disagreed and Johnson's pro-Union stance brought him into conflict with his own Democratic Party and his Southern constituents, particularly as Southern states began to withdraw from the Union.
5. AJHSEH_050305_065.JPG: Andrew Johnson's Beliefs: Voice for the Working Class: Andrew Johnson never forgot his working-class roots. His belief that farmers, artisans, craftsmen, and common laborers were the backbone of America could be traced back to Thomas Jefferson's ideas of limited government and individual freedom. Johnson truly believed in America as a land of opportunity, but he also suspected that the traditional independence of Americans could be blocked by those of privilege and standing. Although a slaveholder himself, Johnson had as much disdain for the wealthy Southern planters as he had for rich businessmen and bankers of the North. Johnson's faith in the ordinary working man manifested itself throughout his political career. He advocated using excess public lands for homesteading, and, while quite conservative in spending the taxpayers' money, he supported public education. Johnson's consistent push for the direct election process for the offices of president, vice president, and U.S. senators is another example of the faith he placed in the common man. He also favored elimination of the electoral college.
6. AJHSEH_050305_072.JPG: Nineteenth-Century Plastering: Early Home Restoration: As part of its mission, the National Park Service employs and trains craftspeople in traditional methods of construction and preservation. The restoration of the interior of this Early Home provides an example of that training. Re-creation of the walls required knowledge of the types of materials and construction methods used in the early nineteenth century, including plastering, marbleizing, painting, and carpentry. Through careful study and analysis, even the paint colors and plaster composition have been matched to restore the wall to their original appearance.
7. AJHSEH_050305_075.JPG: Political Landscape: The Democrats: The Democratic Party formed in the late 1820's around Andrew Jackson. He believed in an America based on agriculture and the independent craftsman, and opposed the rise of cities, industrialization, and the centralization of government. Although originally a national party, by the 1850's the Democratic Party's arguments for strict adherence to the Constitution, states' rights, and limited federal government merged into a single issue: the protection of slavery. With this shift, the party became more regional, and its region was the slaveholding South. The Whigs: The Whigs appeared in the early 1830's as a reaction against President Andrew Jackson. They argued that finance and manufacturing were central to America's growth, and government intervention in the economy was necessary to develop the country's resources. Whigs such as Daniel Webster and Henry Clay supported government assistance for road and canal building and advocated high tariffs to protect emerging industries. By 1840, the Whigs were popular enough to elect war hero William Henry Harrison president. The Republicans: The biggest threat to the Democrats, however, emerged as a result of their defense of slavery. As Americans moved westward, the question of allowing slavery into the new territories dominated all other political subjects. Northerners, who wanted the West free of slaves and open only to whites, opposed the expansion of slavery. In the mid-1850's, former Whigs, including Abraham Lincoln, northern Democrats, and remnants from earlier anti-slavery parties combined to form the Republican Party. Both Democrats and Republicans saw each other as a threat to American progress and opportunity. By the late 1850's, these two positions were headed for a catastrophic confrontation.
8. AJHSEH_050305_080.JPG: This is the inside of the house where Johnson lived from the 1830's to 1851. The Park Service gutted it to remove the modern updates to it and left it in this state.
9. AJHSEH_050305_118.JPG: The house he lived in until 1851 is on the right. The tailor shop is preserved in the building on the other side of the stop sign. That's downtown Greeneville all around it.
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2005 photos: Trips this year: Florida (for Lotusphere), a driving trip down south (seeing sites in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia), Williamsburg, and Chicago. Equipment this year: I used four cameras -- two Fujifilm S7000 cameras (which were plagued by dust inside the lens), a new Fujifilm S5200 (nice but not great and I hated the proprietary xD memory chips), and a Canon PowerShot S1 IS (returned because it felt flimsy to me). I gave my Epson camera to my catsitter. Both of the S7000s were in for repairs over Christmas. Number of photos taken this year: 147,000.
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