Impeachment: Timeline

1804   The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate United States Senate

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 begin an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court of the United States

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 Justice Samuel Chase (he was charged with political bias but was acquitted by the Senate Senate

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 of all charges on March 1, 1805).

1805   Justice Samuel Chase acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate

1868   After Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson

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 tried to dismiss United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, he becomes the first President of the United States President of the United States

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 to be impeached Impeachment

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 by the United States House of Representatives United States House of Representatives

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. Johnson would later be acquitted by the United States Senate United States Senate

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1868   A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate United States Senate

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 to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson

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1868   President President of the United States

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 Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson

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 is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate United States Senate

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1871   In North Carolina North Carolina

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, William Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state U.S. state

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 to be removed from office by impeachment.

1974   The United States House of Representatives United States House of Representatives

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 Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.

1974   Three Republican Republican Party (United States)

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 congressional leaders (Barry Goldwater Barry Goldwater

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, Hugh Scott and John Rhodes) visit President Nixon in the White House White House

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. They inform him that he lacks the votes to escape impeachment in the House of Representatives House of Representatives

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 and conviction in the Senate Senate

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1986   United States United States

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 District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.

1988   Governor Governor

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 Evan Mecham of Arizona Arizona

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 is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from offi

1998   Lewinsky scandal Lewinsky scandal

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: As part of the impeachment inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to U.S. President Bill Clinton Bill Clinton

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1998   Lewinsky scandal Lewinsky scandal

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: The United State House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton Bill Clinton

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1998   Lewinsky scandal Lewinsky scandal

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: Bill Clinton Bill Clinton

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 is impeached Impeachment

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 by the House of Representatives United States House of Representatives

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1999   President President of the United States

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 Bill Clinton Bill Clinton

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 is acquitted by the United States Senate United States Senate

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 in his impeachment trial.

2001   Impeachment proceedings against Philippine President Joseph E. Estrada end prematurely after the second envelope, which allegedly holds proof that the accused has committed plunder, remains unopened by majority vote of the senator-judges. Those senators who voted for the opening of the envelope walk out of the courtroom along with the people watching inside. This event, covered on several Philippine television channels, and the resulting SMS/text messages encouraging everyone to go to EDSA and shout for the removal or resignation of Estrada from office, triggers the second EDSA People Power Revolution or People Power II.