Charles Johnson (Tennessee)

Charles Johnson
Undated portrait (U.S. National Park Service)
Born(1830-02-19)February 19, 1830
Greeneville, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedApril 4, 1863(1863-04-04) (aged 33)
Nashville, Tennessee, C.S.[a]

Charles Johnson (February 19, 1830 – April 4, 1863) was the first-born son of 17th U.S. President Andrew Johnson and his wife Eliza McCardle Johnson. He died at age 33 near Nashville, during the American Civil War, while his father was serving as military governor of Tennessee.

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Charles Johnson was remembered his mother's favorite.[1] She was said to have "never quite recovered" from her grief at his early death.[2] Charles Johnson's death is sometimes mentioned as one of the causes for Eliza Johnson's self-isolation during the family's White House years. He was noted for both his conviviality but also his "dissipation,"[1] and he is believed to have suffered from the same alcoholism that contributed to his brother Robert Johnson's death in 1869.[3]


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  2. ^ Jones, James S. (1901). Life of Andrew Johnson. Seventeenth president of the United States. Greeneville, Tenn.: East Tennessee publishing company. p. 81.
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