For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

In The Impeachment Power, Keith Whittington offers sound and convincing guidance for would-be practitioners of the ...

Subsequently, there have been several attempts to begin impeachment proceedings against particular justices, but none has ever prevailed in the House. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the ...

Andrew Johnson's presidency was marred by conflict ... He ultimately faced impeachment for violating the Tenure of Office Act through his effort to dismiss Lincoln-appointed Secretary of War ...

Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate the reunification and reconstruction of the Union while addressing issues such as African-American civil rights. He failed badly, to the extent that his ...

And of course there is the very first impeachment, that of Andrew Johnson, who escaped conviction in the Senate because the act he was accused of violating, the Tenure of Office Act, was itself ...

Conflicts with the Radical Republican Congress and his own ineptness led to an impeachment trial; Johnson was acquitted in the Senate by one vote... Died: July 31, 1875. The issue that vexed the ...