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 ...

But there are general rules, based largely on the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868. In that case, the president just about kept his job. The only other president to face an ...

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 ...

The two others, Bill Clinton in 1999 and Andrew Johnson in 1868 ... to seek Mr Bolton's testimony during the president's impeachment trial, provoking uproar from Democrats. A manuscript of ...

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 ...

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 ...