Videos: 'The Andrew Johnson Impeachment Explained: US History Review'

(Tuesday, May 26, 1868) — The two-month impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended today as the Senate voted 35 guilty and 19 not guilty on the remaining charges (Articles II and III), falling one vote short of the two-third majority required to remove him from office.

Ten days earlier, the Senate also failed to convict Johnson on another article of impeachment (Article VI), voting by an identical 35-19 margin.

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.

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