On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate voted 35 to 19, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict President Andrew Johnson of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” as ...

She views Trump’s impeachment as a way to begin “ to heal the country.” Obviously, the 1868 Senate’s acquittal of Andrew Johnson left open the door for what some consider a triumphant return.

At the Senate trial, manager Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts acknowledged that impeachment was “political in nature.” Then as now, Andrew Johnson’s prickly persona contributed to the showdown.

This conflict peaked when Johnson fired Edwin Stanton, who was Lincoln's holdover Secretary of War. In 1868, the House of Representatives approved eleven articles of impeachment against Johnson.

On March 4, 1868, the House of Representatives formally presented 11 articles of impeachment to the Senate, making Andrew Johnson the first President in the country’s history to be impeached.

For centuries, the public has followed them in newspapers and by attending the proceedings. The trial of Andrew Johnson was no different. It began on March 5, 1868, and the country was riveted.

Senators took the same oath before the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868 but were not so careful. Personal animus against the president ran deep: Andrew Johnson, of Kentucky ...

But that title was claimed instead by the Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. The two trials became so intertwined that Davis’s prosecution was delayed for months.

They might be surprised, though, to learn that Mansfield had direct connections to the first impeachment trial. In the winter of 1868, Andrew Johnson was the first of three presidents to be impeached.

In May 1868, President Andrew Johnson came one vote short of conviction on articles of impeachment. His was the first presidential impeachment in US history, one of only three to date to go to trial.