who was impeached by congress
The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnsonâs removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history.At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Andrew Johnson, a senator from Tennessee, was the only U.S. senator from a seceding state who remained loyal to the Union.n February 24, Johnson was impeached, and on March 13 his impeachment trial began in the Senate under the direction of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. The trial ended on May 26 with Johnsonâs opponents narrowly failing to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to convict him.