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 ...

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The President's right to free speech should not be simply dismissed out of hand. After Lincoln's assassination in 1865, Vice President Andrew Johnson became President. Over the next three years ...

2. Which presidents have been impeached? The first, President Andrew Johnson, was impeached in 1868 amid a bitter feud with Congress in the aftermath of the Civil War. A Democrat who had been ...

Before he was impeached, President Andrew Johnson considered himself a champion of the common man — but only when those common men were white. News Sports Business Go Knoxville Shopper News ...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — Andrew Johnson, the first American president to be impeached, doesn’t exactly have a presidential library as much as a collection of buildings that are dedicated to his ...

In 1868, during the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, the Senate tied on two votes. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase broke both ties.

The impeachment trial was almost over, and Sen. James Grimes was tormented with doubt. The senator from Iowa couldn’t stand Andrew Johnson, the belligerent, racist president on trial before the ...

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.

If you revisit Andrew Johnson’s impeachment, what led to it and the fallout, you find a country still deeply divided after the Civil War despite the efforts of Abraham Lincoln.

Key point: Andrew Johnson was the first president impeached, but he wasn’t removed from office. Could the same fate await Trump? Impeachment talk has been ongoing since President Donald Trump ...