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 ...

T he 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 ...

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

Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse ...

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 ...

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 ...

The presidents who have been successfully impeached are Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump (twice). Although there have been four successful votes for impeachment, no president has ever ...

If the House votes an impeachment resolution ... The most notable impeachments—Justice Samuel Chase, and Presidents Andrew Johnson and William Jefferson Clinton—have ended in acquittals ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh ... In return, the U.S. House voted 126-47 to impeach Johnson. After a trial, the Senate acquitted him by one vote. He unsuccessfully sought the Democratic ...