‘Impeachment Polka’: How a composer in 1868 sought to capitalize on America’s political obsession January 16, 2020 More than 5 years ago Summary ...

The term is generally understood to mean abuse of office that results in harm to the public. The House impeached Andrew Johnson in 1868 during a fight over reconstruction after the Civil War.

When Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868, the context was the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the whole sorrowful saga of the American Civil War.

Today, as in 1868, the Senate alone determines whether a president should be removed from office through the impeachment process.

Andrew Johnson in 1868. Johnson was impeached by the House on 11 articles of impeachment, namely violating the Tenure of Office Act, which involved his firing of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

The first impeachment of a sitting cabinet member sets off a series of choreographed rituals that dates back to the impeachment of former President Andrew Johnson in 1868.

In the spring of 1868, the hottest ticket in Washington was the one to attend Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial. The desirability of obtaining such a ticket was understandable.

So read the first article of impeachment that led to the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, the first, and until this year the only, such trial of a president in U.S. history. It ...

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.

The Constitution does not provide procedural guidelines for how an impeachment trial is to be conducted—so the senators of 1868 had to figure it out as they went.

I wrote that the 1868 impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson implicated the freedom of speech. At the time, I didn't dig through the records, but I presumed that Johnson's acquittal was based, at ...

Twenty years ago, Bill Clinton became the first president to be impeached since Andrew Johnson, in 1868. We offer a recounting by people who played a role.