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(Saturday, May 16, 1868, vote began at 12:30 p.m. local time) — The U.S. Senate today failed to find President Andrew Johnson guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors” over his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, voting 35–19 on the first of 11 articles of impeachment, one vote short of the necessary two-thirds majority needed to convict.

A ten-day recess was called before attempting to convict Johnson on additional articles, but the delay would not change the outcome.

A Democrat who ran with President Abraham Lincoln on the National Union ticket in 1864, Johnson came to office after Lincoln’s assassination and the American Civil War concluded.

The new President clashed with the Republican-dominated Congress on Reconstruction policies, culminating in the first impeachment of a President since creation of the office in 1789.

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