For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

the power of impeachment. On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted along party lines, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and ...

Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate the reunification and reconstruction of the Union while addressing issues such as African-American civil rights. He failed badly, to the extent that his ...

Because “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” was a term of art used ... to begin impeachment proceedings against particular justices, but none has ever prevailed in the House. Andrew Johnson ...

shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. In the debates in the ... impeachments—Justice Samuel Chase, and Presidents Andrew Johnson and William Jefferson Clinton—have ended in acquittals ...

The United States had experienced only two of them—Andrew Johnson ... prompting him to threaten impeachment of the offending judges and leading House Speaker Mike Johnson to threaten to defund ...