how many presidents have been impeached?

Answer 1

Since 1797 the House of Representatives has impeached sixteen federal officials. These include two presidents, a cabinet member, a senator, a justice of the Supreme Court, and eleven federal judges. Of those, the Senate has convicted and removed seven, all of them judges. Not included in this list are the office holders who have resigned rather than face impeachment, most notably, President Richard M. Nixon.

Two U.S. presidents have been impeached: Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth chief executive, and William J. Clinton, the forty-second.

Johnson, a Southern Democrat who became president after Lincoln's assassination, supported a mild policy of Reconstruction after the Civil War. The Radical Republicans in Congress were furious at his leniency toward ex-Confederates and obvious lack of concern for ex-slaves, demonstrated by his veto of civil rights bills and opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment. To protect Radical Republicans in Johnson's administration and diminish the strength of the president, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act in 1867, which prohibited the president from dismissing office holders without the Senate's approval. A defiant Johnson tested the constitutionality of the Act by attempting to oust Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. His violation of the Act became the basis for impeachment in 1868. But the Senate was one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict, and Johnson was acquitted May 26, 1868.


Bill Clinton was ultimately dragged down—though not defeated—by the character issues brought into question even before his election. An investigation into some suspect real estate dealings in which Clinton was involved prior to his presidency failed to turn up any implicating evidence. However, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr managed to unravel a tangled web of alleged sexual advances and affairs in Clinton's past. The trail led to former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky. After months of denials, including in a videotaped legal testimony, Clinton admitted in August of 1998 that he had had a sexual relationship with the young woman during the time of her internship.

Answer 2

Which President Was Impeached

Answer 3

1

Answer 4

Two presidents have been impeached. Neither were convicted. Clinton was impeached by the house but not by the Senate.

Answer 5

2 presidents have been impeached. Remember impeached doesn't mean kicked out of office it is just the trial process. Bill Clinton was impeached but not convicted. Also, Richard Nixon was not impeached!!! The first president to be impeached was Andrew Johnson.

Answer 6

I don't know where you people were living at the time but Bill Clinton was never impeached. Like now the republicans tried to impeach him but never was successful.

Answer 7

Nixon was not impeached. He resigned.

Andrew Johnson - In February 1868, Johnson notified Congress that he had removed Edwin Stanton as Secretary of War and was replacing him in the interim with Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas. This violated the Tenure of Office Act, a law enacted by Congress on March 2, 1867 over Johnson's veto, specifically designed to protect Stanton. Johnson had vetoed the act, claiming it was unconstitutional. The act said, "...every person holding any civil office, to which he has been appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate ... shall be entitled to hold such office until a successor shall have been in like manner appointed and duly qualified," thus removing the President's previous unlimited power to remove any of his Cabinet members at will. Years later in the case Myers v. United States in 1926, the Supreme Court ruled that such laws were indeed unconstitutional.


Bill Clinton. That's it.

Answer 8

2.
Andrew Johnson 1868
Bill Clinton 1998 (Tried in 1999)

Nixon was never impeached.

Answer 9

2

Andrew Johnson and was not convicted by, I think one vote, in the Senate.

Bill Clinton was impeached, but ended up being censured and not convicted.

Answer 10

2 Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. Jonson was removed from office. Since only the house impeached Clinton and not the Senate, he was allowed to finish his term. Nixon came close to being impeached. He resigned before it could happen.