RARE ORIG 1868 ANDREW JOHNSON SENATE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL TICKET HISTORIC NR MINT for Sale

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RARE ORIG 1868 ANDREW JOHNSON SENATE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL TICKET HISTORIC NR MINT For Sale

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RARE ORIG 1868 ANDREW JOHNSON SENATE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL TICKET HISTORIC NR MINT:
$399.95

"The galleries of the Senate Chamber were filled to capacity on March 5, 1868, as the Senate began its proceedings for the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Popular interest in the trial was so intense that the Senate, for the first time in its history, issued gallery passes, beginning a practice that continues to the present. On May 16, the Senate voted on one article of impeachment, falling just one vote short of conviction and removal from office. Ten days later, the Senate voted on two more articles, with the same result. On May 26, the Senate acquitted the president and adjourned the Court of Impeachment. Johnson was not re-nominated for the presidency in 1868 but returned to the Senate in 1875, serving until his death on July 31 of that year."

Here is something you don't see every day and, an interestingly appropriate offering for the times we are currently witnessing. This is an original ticketfor a seat in the gallery of the U. S. Senate Chamber to view the impeachment trial of PresidentAndrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865-1869. Johnson was the first president to be impeached and was eventually acquitted by one vote. To read more about his impeachment seeImpeachment of Andrew Johnson - Wikipedia.

Printed on heavy card stock in copper tone red-gold printing, on a field of blue. The ticket was printed byPhilp and Solomons, publishers and printers located, according to an advertisement of 1865, at332 Penn. Ave. bet. 9th & 10th Streets, Washington, D.C. Today theJ. Edgar Hoover Building, headquarters of the FBI, is on the site.

Exceptional near mint condition and a unique piece of American history.