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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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Impeachment: What is impeachment?
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Alexander Hamilton: Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, who outlined impeachment in the Federalist Papers (1788). Portrait painted by John Trumbull, 1806.
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Nixon and Watergate: Representative Peter Rodino (D-NJ), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, steering the 1974 impeachment hearings of Pres. Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
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Pres. Richard M. Nixon's presidential resignation letter, Aug. 9, 1974.
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Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton: The U.S. Senate voting on the perjury charges against Pres. Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial, Feb. 12, 1999.
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Impeachment tickets for Pres. Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, dated January 15, 1999, presented to Pres. Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty Ford.
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Samuel Chase, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, 2021.
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A March 25, 1876, Thomas Nast cartoon published in Harper's Weekly depicts the fate of General William Belknap who was facing impeachment.
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Trump Impeached: New York Times coverage of the Dec. 19, 2019, impeachment of Pres. Donald Trump by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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(From L-R:) US House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, Clinton, and US Vice President Albert Gore.
U.S. President Bill Clinton addresses the nation on December 19, 1998, from the White...
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: The last speech on the impeachment of Pres. Andrew Johnson by Thaddeus Stevens, an illustration by Theodore R. Davis, Harper's Weekly, 1868.
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Who Has Been Impeached?
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William Blount, U.S. Senator (TN)
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John Pickering, U.S. District Court Judge, New Hampshire
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James H. Peck, U.S. District Court Judge, Western District of Tennessee
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West H. Humphreys, U.S. District Court Judge, Western District of Tennessee
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Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States
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Mark H. Delahay, U.S. District Court Judge, Kansas
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William W. Belknap, U.S. Secretary of War
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Charles Swayne, U.S. District Court Judge, Northern District of Florida
From The Literary Digest, Vol. XXX, 1905
Robert W. Archbald, U.S. Commerce Court Associate Judge
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George W. English, U.S. District Court Judge, Eastern District of Illinois
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Harold Louderback, U.S. District Court Judge, Northern District of California
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Halsted L. Ritter, U.S. District Court Judge, Southern District of Florida
From History of Colorado, by Wilbur Fiske Stone, Vol. II, 1918
Harry E. Claiborne, U.S. District Court Judge, Nevada
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Alcee L. Hastings, U.S. District Court Judge, Southern District of Florida
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Walter L. Nixon, U.S. District Court Judge, Southern District of Mississippi
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William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
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Samuel B. Kent, U.S. District Court Judge, Southern District of Texas
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G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., U.S. District Court Judge, Eastern District of Louisiana
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Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States
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Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States
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Alejandro Mayorkas, Homeland Security Secretary
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