What presidents have been impeached?
Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 for replacing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton with Lorenzo Thomas in violation of the Tenure of Office Act of 1867. (The Tenure of Office Act required the Senate’s approval to remove any federal official from an office that required Senate approval of the appointment to that office.) Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 for grand jury perjury and obstruction of justice related to the 1994 Paula Jones sexual harrassment lawsuit, based on a report provided to Congress by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, who had been appointed to investigate the Clintons’ Whitewater real estate dealings. Both Johnson and Clinton were acquitted of the charges.
