Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
Nice ticket to the Senate Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson, 3 1/2" x 3" on yellow heavy stock, Washington, permitting the bearer to view the proceedings on May 5, 1868 from the Gallery of the Senate with the stub .Some tape repairs, else very good condition. The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, who became the 17th President of the United States after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, was one of the most dramatic events in the political life of the United States during Reconstruction. The first impeachment of a sitting United States president, it was the consummation of a lengthy political battle between the moderate Johnson and the "Radical Republican" movement that dominated Congress and sought control of Reconstruction policies. Johnson was impeached on February 24, 1868, in the U.S. House of Representatives on eleven articles of impeachment detailing his "high crimes and misdemeanors", in accordance with Article Two of the United States Constitution. The House's primary charge against Johnson was with violation of the Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress the previous year. Specifically, he had removed Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War (whom the Tenure of Office Act was largely designed to protect), from office and replaced him with Major General Lorenzo Thomas. The House agreed to the articles of impeachment on March 2, 1868. The trial began three days later in the Senate, with Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presiding. The trial concluded on May 16 with Johnson's acquittal, with the votes for conviction being one less than the required two-thirds tally.
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