1-149-690 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson, 5 March 1868, (1872). Johnson (1808-1875), seventeenth President of the United States, succeeded to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. His term lasted from 1865 to 1869. He was impeached in 1868 but was acquitted. Engraving from A Child's History of the United States by John Gilmary Shea, published by Hess and McDavitt, (New York, 1872).