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Impeachment: What is impeachment?

Alexander Hamilton: Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, who outlined impeachment in the Federalist Papers (1788). Portrait painted by John Trumbull, 1806.

Harold Donohue, Peter Rodino, and Edward Hutchinson seated at a panel desk with microphones and nameplates during the Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings for President Nixon.

Pres. Richard M. Nixon's presidential resignation letter, Aug. 9, 1974.

An impeachment hearing on television with the text Article 1 Perjury, Two-thirds vote needed to convict. Guilty: 45, Not Guilty: 54.

Impeachment tickets for Pres. Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, dated January 15, 1999, presented to Pres. Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty Ford.

Samuel Chase, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, 2021.

A March 25, 1876, Thomas Nast cartoon published in Harper's Weekly depicts the fate of General William Belknap who was facing impeachment.

A woman holds and reads the December 19, 2019 issue of the New York Times with the front-page headline reading Trump Impeached above a photo of President Donald Trump speaking.

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