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 ...

T he U.S. House of Representatives voted on 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson on February 24, 1868. Nine of those articles cited Johnson’s removal of Secretary of War ...

Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse ...

The presidency of Donald Trump began at noon on Jan. 20, 2017, when he was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. While Trump was despised by the Democrats and most of the media, ...

Subsequently, there have been several attempts to begin impeachment proceedings against particular justices, but none has ever prevailed in the House. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the ...

In a new letter, Johnson and the Republican impeachment managers called on Senate ... Ben Cline, Rep. Andrew Garbarino, Rep. Michael Guest, Rep. Harriet Hageman, Rep. Clay Higgins, Rep.

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Only three of his predecessors underwent similar proceedings: Andrew Johnson and Bill ... He resigned from office on August 9, 1974. Johnson’s impeachment in 1868 was the culmination of a ...

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 ...

A new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton's hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the aftermath of the president’s 1865 assassination Vanessa Armstrong A new podcast series explores ...