Tickets to the Johnson impeachment trial were color-coded to ... to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Days later, a House committee drew ...

A Unionist Democrat from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was put on the ticket by Lincoln in 1864 in an effort to ... He failed badly, to the extent that his ineffective leadership brought impeachment ...

A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln ... Congress and his own ineptness led to an impeachment trial; Johnson was acquitted in the Senate by one vote ...

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 ...