The President Andrew Johnson Weeping Willow honors one of the few Americans to be elected mayor, senator, congressman, governor, Vice-President and President of the United States . A Southerner with Unionist sympathies during the Civil War, Johnson was selected as Lincoln 's running mate in 1864. The Andrew Johnson Weeping Willow was presented to Johnson by Captain William Francis Lynch, who had obtained a cutting from a weeping willow at the gravesite of Napoleon. The President Andrew Johnson Weeping Willow stands in Greeneville , Tennessee ,where the former president is buried .