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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1465

[Johnson, Andrew]: Impeachment Tickets Seventeenth President of the United States (1808-75, served 1865-69); the only southern US Senator to remain loyal to the Union during secession, he was made military governor of Tennessee; Vice President under Abraham Lincoln, succeeding upon his assassination; the first president to be impeached, he was acquitted by a single vote. Uncommon and desirable pair of printed Tickets to Johnson´s impeachment. One is yellow with black type, 3" x 5", with an unused space for the attendee´s name, and admits him to the US Capitol building on March 13, 1868 - the day on which the impeachment trial was to begin. However, President Johnson´s defense team asked for an extension to finish gathering witnesses, and the proceedings were postponed for ten days. The other ticket, 2.9" x 3.5", orange with green type, admits the bearer to the Senate gallery on April 2 (during the presntation of the prosecution´s case), and includes a detached matching stub stamped "471." Both bear the printed signature of George F Brown, the Senate´s sergeant-at-arms, and are printed by "Philp & Solomons, Washn." March ticket with uneven edges, some surface soiling and scuffs; April ticket with small notch in bottom edge and minor loss of surface at top left of stub; otherwise both VF. After President Lincoln´s murder, a power struggle emerged in the White House between Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. The Radical Republican US Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act specifically to prevent Johnson from removing Stanton from the cabinet. The President believed this was unconstitutional and sacked the Secretary of War, leading to his impeachment for violating the Act. [3]

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