The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson – History Of The First Attempt to Impeach the President of The United States & The Trial that Followed
One-Vote TrialBy Edmund G. Ross
Length10h 8m
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Little is now known to the general public of the history of the attempt to remove President Andrew Johnson in 1868, on his impeachment by the House of Representatives and trial by the Senate for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors in office, or of the causes that led to it. Yet it was one of the most important and critical events, involving possibly the gravest consequences, in the entire history of the country.
The constitutional power to impeach and remove the President had lain dormant since the organization of the Government, and apparently had never been thought of as a means for the satisfaction of political enmities or for the punishment of alleged executive misdemeanors, even in the many heated controversies between the President and Congress that had theretofore arisen. Nor would any attempt at impeachment have been made at that time but for the great numerical disparity then existing between the respective representatives in Congress of the two political parties of the country.
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The new president favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union. His plans did not give protection to the former slaves, and he came into conflict with the Republican-dominated Congress, culminating in his impeachment by the House of Representatives. He was the first American president to be impeached, in the Senate by one vote.
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GenreHistory, Biography and Memoir
Length10 hrs 8 mins
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Publish dateApr 21, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson – History Of The First Attempt to Impeach the President of The United States & The Trial that Followed
2PREFACE
3CHAPTER I — THE PROBLEM OF RECONSTRUCTION
4CHAPTER II — THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION
5CHAPTER III — MR. JOHNSON'S ACCESSION TO THE PRESIDENCY
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6CHAPTER IV — FIRST ATTEMPT TO IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT
7CHAPTER V — THE TENURE-OF-OFFICE ACT
8CHAPTER VI — IMPEACHMENT AGREED TO BY THE HOUSE
9CHAPTER VII — IMPEACHMENT REPORTED TO THE SENATE
10CHAPTER VIII — ORGANIZATION OF THE COURT ARGUMENT OF COUNSEL
11CHAPTER IX — EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES AND THEIR TESTIMONY
12CHAPTER X — A CONFERENCE HELD AND THE FIRST VOTE TAKEN
13CHAPTER XI — THE IMPEACHERS IN A MAZE. A RECESS ORDERED
14CHAPTER XII — WAS IT A PARTISAN PROSECUTION?
15CHAPTER XIII — THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWER OF IMPEACHMENT
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