Historical Resolution: Resolution of Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, Adopted by House of Representatives

Johnson Impeachment & the End of His Presidency

Historical Resolution: Resolution of Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, Adopted by House of Representatives

02/22/1868

Historical Resolution

DocsTeach features an 1868 historical legal resolution, adopted by the United States House of Representatives, that determined that President Andrew Johnson (D-TN)--who became the 17th President of the United States after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April of 1865--would be impeached and stand trial for committing "high crimes and misdemeanors" by the United States Congress.

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