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Andrew Johnson was born on December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina, into a poor family. After his father Jacob Johnson died in 1812, the family fell into even harder circumstances. At the age of thirteen, he was apprenticed to tailor James Selby; however, he escaped from this apprenticeship in 1824. For several years he worked as a traveling tailor in South Carolina and Tennessee. In 1826 he settled in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he opened a tailoring shop and married Eliza McCardle in 1