The 17th president of the United States, the president who succeeded Lincoln after his assassination. Andrew Johnson is often considered to be one of the worst
American presidents, mainly because of his overly laid back treatment of the South which had just lost the Civil War, his lack of concern about now
freedman slaves that had no place to work or go due to discrimination in society, and his direct defiance of Congress. Johnson tried to sabotage
Lincoln's reconstruction plans and he went to war with Congress until he was eventually impeached, just barely evading removal from office. Johnson was a white supremacist and is mutually agreed by historians to have been a very poor leader.
Some of the worst
presidents the U.S. has seen include
James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and
Franklin Pierce.
