Andrew Johnson
Champion of Public Education in Tennessee
“Can there be nothing done to advance the great cause of education?”
Governor Andrew Johnson, 1853
----------Throughout his legislative and gubernatorial careers, Andrew Johnson advocated appropriation of public money for common schools for both boys and girls. As governor, he proposed a school tax which was passed by the legislature in February 1854. As president, he gave personal land for a church and freedmen’s school in Greeneville. On March 2, 1867, he signed a bill establishing Howard University, an African-American institution of higher learning in Washington, D. C.
Marker is at the intersection of E Church Street and N College Street, on the left when traveling east on E Church Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
