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 * __//IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON!!!//__**

There were two attempts to remove president Andrew Johnson from office. The first occurred in the fall of 1867 On November 21, 1867, the house judiciary committee produced a bill of impeachment that consisted of a vast collection of complaints against him. Tenure of office act- required all orders from the president to go through the headquarters of the general of the army. Republicans wanted to enforce there laws but Andrew Johnson didn't approve of it, then 3 days later Johnson was impeached. Johnson notify congress that he had removed Edwin Stanton as secretary of war and was replacing him in the interring with adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas.

He wanted to replace Stanton with former General Ulysses S. Grant, who refused to accept the job. This violated the Tenure of Office Act, a law ruled by congress in March 1867 over Johnson's veto, designed to guard Stanton. Johnson had vetoed the act, claiming it was unconstitutional. The act said, "every human being holding any office, which he was appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate ... shall be entitled to hold such office until a successor shall have been in like manner appointed and duly qualified," thus removing the President's previous unlimited power to remove any of his Cabinet members at will. Later in the problem, the supreme court orded that laws were unconstitutional.

The Senate and House joined into the debate. Thomas tried to move into the war office, for which Stanton had Thomas arrested. Three days after Stanton's removal, the House impeached Johnson for intentionally violating the Tenure of Office Act. hes also on the twenty dollar bill. William M. Evarts worked as his counsel. Eleven articles were set out in the resolution, and the trial before the Senate lasted almost three months. Johnson's defense was based on a clause in the Tenure of Office Act stating that the then-current secretaries would hold their posts throughout the term of the President who appointed them. Since Lincoln had appointed Stanton, it was claimed, the applicability of the act had already run its course.

There were three votes in the senate: one on may 16 for the 11th article of impeachments, which included many of the charges contained in the others articles, and two on may twenty six for the second and the third articles, after the trial was over. On all three cases, thirty five senators voted "guilty" and nineteen "not guilty." As the constitution requires a two thirds majority for conviction in impeachment trials, Johnson was acquitted; the 35-19 voted was one less than the majority require. A single changed vote for guilty would have convicted and removed Johnson from office. Seven Republican senators were angry by how the proceedings had been manipulated in order to give a one sided presentation of the evidence.

Republicans disturbedly denounced johnson for not anticipating trouble and protecting onvention delagates and supporters. He accused ultra radicals thaddens stevens, wendell phillips, and charles sumner of comparing themselves to "the savior". In spring of 1867, The new congress passed over johnsons veto a second freedmens bareaea bill and propsed to the states a fourteenth amendment to the u.s constitution. The issue that finally turned the tide in favor of impeachment concerned johnson's alleged violation of the tenure of office act. On may 16, 1868 The u.s. senate failed by just one vote to convict president. A little over a month of being president, JOhnson began execating his plan for reconstruction of the south. Johnson excused all rebels except confederate leaders and also restored all rebel property except for slaves. On febuary 24,1868, the new house of representatives vote to impeach president andrew johnson.

Facts about andrew jackson
 * born dec 29, 1808- july 1875
 * 17th president of the united states (1808-69)
 * 17th president of the united states (1865-69)
 * born in raleigh, north carolina, in 1808, grew up in poverty

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