Who was the president in 1869?

Andrew Johnson was the President of the United States at the start of 1869. He was replaced by Ulysses S. Grant on March 4.

Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln as the seventeenth President of the United States, serving from 1865 April 15 to 1869 March 4. He was born on December 29, 1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina; died July 31, 1875 in Elizabethton, Tennessee.

Following Andrew Johnson's failure to win the Democratic nomination for the United States Presidential Election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant, the winning general of the civil war became the eighteenth President of the United States, serving from 1869 March 4 to 1877 March 4. He was born April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio; died July 23, 1885 in Mount McGregor, New York.