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 ...

The mood and tenor in Washington, according to David Miller DeWitt’s The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, was that of a city under siege. “The dominant part of the nation seemed to ...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson on February 24, 1868. Nine of those articles cited Johnson’s removal of Secretary of War ...

Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, who were acquitted after trials in the Senate; and Richard Nixon, who resigned to avoid being impeached in connection with the Watergate scandal. The rarely-used ...

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 ...

Texas congressman Al Green has filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Here's what happens if they ...

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 ...

During Trump's first term, Rep. Al Green of Houston unsuccessfully attempted to impeach the president on three occasions.