| Hejman, fine work on the quiz from a conceptual standpoint, but your explanation & defense (as posed to demonstah) re: Andrew Johnson is incorrect. If there is any rhyme & reason underpinning this exercise, Andrew Johnson *did not* serve as a Democratic President of the United States. He was a member of the antebellum Democratic Party & perhaps a supporter of the Constitutional Union wing that nominated John Bell in 1860. Yet when Lincoln & the Republicans recruited Johnson to run as Vice-President in 1864, the ticket did not obtain the endorsement of the Northern Democrats, who instead forwarded General George McClellan (P) & George Pendleton (VP) as their standard bearers v. the ostensibly Republican ticket of Lincoln/Johnson. During the election of '64, Lincoln/Johnson often campaigned as the candidates of the "National Union" (as demonstah poses above) or the "War Union", but Johnson endorsed the Republican platform as a condition of his placement on the ticket. Further evidence of Johnson's standing as something aside a Democrat is the fact that during his four years as president post Lincoln's assassination, Congressional Democrats evidenced nothing in the way of support for his administration (nor, of course, did the Radical Republican element of Lincoln's Party): thus, your country's 17th President seems a man without a Party. As such, "None" & "Republican" are more historically apt potential answers here: particularly given your own preceding qualification as to acceptable responses for Abe Lincoln. |
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