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Updated: May 2, 2025

The House bringing the Impeachment was three-fourths Republican the Senate that tried it was more than threefourths Republican-the managers on the part of the House were all Republicans the counsel for the President were three Democrats and one Republican the President on trial was a Democrat the interrogatories propounded to witnesses were generally received or rejected, according as their probable answers would make for or against the President the people of the country at large were, as a rule, rigidly divided on party lines relative to the case, Republicans demanding the conviction of the President and Democrats urging his acquittal.

Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson) Ross - History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868