February 13th 2025 Auction
Extremely rare - Andrew Johnson Impeachment Roster Issued by Senate Chamber. One page, 20" x 16", [Washington, D.C.]; circa May 1868. A printed roster from the Fortieth Congress U.S. Second Session, Senate Chamber, which was held on May 16 and May 26, 1868, recording the guilty and not guilty votes made by the Senate members in the trial against Andrew Johnson, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868 by James D. McBride in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the District of Columbia." Extremely rare can not find any other examples that have come to market of this size and only 1 smaller example under 8” in size which Heritage Auctions sold for over $4500 in the last 50 years.
Johnson became president following the death of Abraham Lincoln and drew the wrath of the Radical Republicans with his lenient policies toward the South. The impeachment trial for Andrew Johnson began on March 13, 1868, and lasted nearly three months, ending on May 26. Thirty-five senators voted "guilty" while nineteen senators voted "not guilty", falling short by just one vote of the two-thirds majority required under the Constitution.
Condition: Has been expertly and archivally restored. The document is been mended where there where separations and then lined for support, it was the deacidified and encapsulated in Mylar for its protection. Still missing some paper on edjes and sides in areas, but does not affect any of the printed portion and Text. A very rare Document!Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time. Johnson was a Democrat who ran with Abraham Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket, coming to office as the Civil War concluded. He favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union without protection for the newly freed people who were formerly enslaved as well as pardoning ex-Confederates. This led to conflict with the Republican-dominated Congress, culminating in his impeachment by the House of Representatives in 1868. He was acquitted in the Senate by one vote.
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Extremely rare - Andrew Johnson Impeachment Roster Issued by Senate Chamber 1868
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