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DID YOU KNOW: Johnson Impeachment
Your weekly historical fact, courtesy of the Easton Historical Society

that on April 18, 1868 Representative Oakes Ames wrote ‘We are getting along slow with our impeachment trial.-but it will go through right in the end.”
President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives, However, he was found innocent by one Senatorial vote; 36 were needed to remove him - only 35 found him guilty.
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