May 26, 1868: President Andrew Johnson Escapes Conviction By A Single Vote

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Written By Edward Moran

The first of US President to be impeached, Andrew Johnson remained in office only because the Senate declined to convict him by a vote of 35-19, one ballot shy of the two-thirds majority needed to remove. The episode became one of the chapters in John F Kennedy’s best-selling 1956 book Profiles in Courage.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson

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Andrew Johnson’s Tomb, Greenville, Tennessee, 1947

Andrew Johnson’s Tomb, Greenville, Tennessee, 1947

Edward Moran

Edward is a literary historian specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American social and cultural history. He was associate editor of the World Authors reference series published by H. W. Wilson. He was also associate editor of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, the English language editor for the Japanese American News Corporation, chief editor of Global Rhythm magazine, and a contributing writer to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.

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