Note p. 446 n — INDEX.

[262] Born in North Carolina, 1808; died, 1875. Settled in Tennessee; a tailor by trade; became a member of Congress, 1843–1853; governor of Tennessee, 1853–1857; United States senator, 1857–1862; was a strong Unionist, and was appointed by Lincoln military governor of Tennessee; though a Democrat, was nominated for Vice President with Lincoln in 1864, and elected; became President on the death of Lincoln, in 1865; continued to hold many Democratic principles and soon was opposed to the Republican Congress; vetoed many acts of Congress; was impeached in 1867, but the impeachment failed by one less than a two-thirds majority; returned to Tennessee and was defeated for the Senate and the House, but finally elected to the Senate shortly before his death.

[263] Note, as examples, the turbulent events that followed the English civil war of the seventeenth century and the great civil war known as the French Revolution.