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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And why would Congress bother impeaching ... Two other presidents have been impeached before: Andrew Johnson in 1868, and Bill Clinton in 1998. Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency in ...

Conflicts with the Radical Republican Congress and his own ineptness led to an impeachment trial; Johnson was acquitted in the Senate by one vote... Died: July 31, 1875. The issue that vexed the ...