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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

where the impeachment process was used to impeach President Andrew Johnson over firing of a cabinet appointee, which resulted in acquittal in the U.S. Senate; and again 1999, where President Bill ...