1/ THREAD: The only President — Republican or Democrat — to choose a running mate of the opposing party did so at the other time of a great division in our country's history: The Civil War.
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2/ In 1864, Toward the end of the Civil War and running for reelection, Abraham Lincoln (R) chose Andrew Johnson (D), a Democrat, as his running mate. Lincoln's Vice President during his first term was Hannibal Hamlin, a Republican.
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3/ Lincoln chose Andrew Johnson, a Southern Democrat, because of Johnson's appeal to Southern Unionists — and in an effort to help heal the country after the War. Johnson, of course, would go on to become the first President to be impeached on 24 February 1868.
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