On February 24, 1868, something extraordinary happened in the U.S. Congress. For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew ...

A House of Representatives vote for impeachment doesnotmean a President must leave office. The Senate must follow impeachment with a trial to decide on removal. The House impeached President Andrew ...

Johnson's impeachment in 1868 was the culmination of a bitter dispute between the president and the Republican-controlled House over Reconstruction following the Civil War. The specific trigger for ...

Bad beginnings : Spring 1865 -- President Johnson : April 1865 -- Land of revolution : November 1865 -- The opposition gathers : December 1865 -- A government divided against itself : January-June ...

A Unionist Democrat from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was put on the ticket by Lincoln in 1864 in an effort to reach union sympathizers in the Border States. Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate ...

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 he was charged under the ...