Impeachment and Trial of President Johnson

• Tenure of Office Act (1867)

• Johnson fires Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (Feb. 21, 1868)

• House votes impeachment (Feb. 24, 1868)

• Senate fails to convict by one vote, 35-19 (May 16, 1868)

• Harper�s Weekly coverage
  

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Johnson served with summons HW 3/28/68