Fortunately she had received a good basic education that she was delighted to share with her new husband. He was driving a blind pony hitched to a small cart, and she said to a girl friend, “There goes my beau!” She married him within a year, on May 17, 1827.Įliza was the daughter of Sarah Phillips and John McCardle, a shoemaker. Eliza was almost 16 then and Andrew only 17 and local tradition tells of the day she first saw him. That faith began to develop many years before in east Tennessee, when Andrew Johnson first came to Greeneville, across the mountains from North Carolina, and established a tailor shop. Her faith in him had never wavered during those difficult days in 1868, when her courage dictated that all White House social events should continue as usual. “I knew he’d be acquitted I knew it,” declared Eliza McCardle Johnson, told how the Senate had voted in her husband’s impeachment trial. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1865 to 1869.
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