The U.S. House of Representatives voted on 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson on ... With the vote, President Johnson became the first president to be impeached in U.S ...

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 ...

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.) this week became the first House Republican to file articles of impeachment against a ...

He failed badly, to the extent that his ineffective leadership brought impeachment ... Andrew Johnson’s racism and antipathy towards African-American civil rights were a harbinger for similar ...

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

Millions of people tuned in to watch the impeachment trial of ... Clinton was just the second American president to be impeached, following Andrew Johnson in 1868. He was acquitted by the ...

Even the most famous “independent counsel,” Judge Kenneth Starr, who recommended the impeachment of President William ... and Presidents Andrew Johnson and William Jefferson Clinton—have ...