U.S. Senate gallery ticket to the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., 27 May 1868.
After the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in the spring of 1865, Andrew Johnson, his vice president, assumed the office. Although Johnson had made the punishment of the secessionist Confederates a common theme in his rhetoric, his postbellum actions as president, including near-blanket amnesty for ex-rebels and the vetoing of civil rights legislation for freedmen, led to a permanent rift with Congress, and in 1868 he became the first president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. Depicted here is an admission ticket to the Senate trial of Johnson's impeachment; dated 27 May, the pass was voided, as the proceedings concluded the day prior with the president's acquittal by a margin of one vote.
Tennessee State Library & Archives, Nashville.
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