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"Formal
Notice of the Impeachment
of Andrew Johnson,
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,
March 14, 1868.
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On February
25, 1868, the House Managers of Impeachment, led by Thaddeus Stevens and
John A. Bingham of Ohio, went before the U.S. Senate to present eleven
articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson. The case rested
on Johnson's removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton from office,
but in reality grew out of congressional disapproval of Johnson's Reconstruction
policies.
On May 26,
1868, the Senate voted 35-19 to convict Johnson, one vote short of the
two-thirds necessary to remove him from office.
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