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What was President Andrew Johnson impeached for?

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What was President Andrew Johnson impeached for?

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in an effort to protect Secretary of War Edwin Stanton from being removed from office by President Johnson. This Act was declared unconstitutional 58 years later by the Supreme Court. The Congress was wrong to have impeached him, but that was the politics of the time.