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Events on Thursday 4 March 1869 3
1865 – 1869A. Johnson presidency17th President — 1865 to 1869Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency on April 15, 1865 after Lincoln's assassination. His lenient Reconstruction policies clashed with Congress, leading to his impeachment in 1868. He was acquitted by one vote in the Senate.
1869 – 1877Grant presidency18th President — 1869 to 1877Ulysses S. Grant served as the 18th President from March 4, 1869 to March 4, 1877. He vigorously enforced Reconstruction and civil rights for Black Americans, but his administration was marred by corruption scandals.
1869Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated as US presidentCivil War general becomes eighteenth US presidentUlysses S. Grant was sworn in as the eighteenth President of the United States, having led Union forces to victory in the Civil War four years earlier. His administration oversaw early Reconstruction policy in the postwar South. He was inaugurated on the steps of the US Capitol.