Salmon P. Chase

Andrew Johnson Impeached for Obstructing Reconstruction

1868-02-24 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10

The House of Representatives votes 126-47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson on February 24, 1868—the first presidential impeachment in American history. The precipitating event is Johnson’s February 21 attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and replace him with Lorenzo Thomas in …

Andrew Johnson Edwin Stanton U.S. House of Representatives Radical Republicans Lorenzo Thomas +1 more reconstruction-sabotage presidential-corruption institutional-capture democratic-erosion

Treasury Department Cotton Permit System Enables Massive Corruption as Officials Trade with Enemy for Personal Profit

1863-01-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Throughout the Civil War, the Treasury Department’s cotton permit system—requiring federal authorization to purchase cotton in Confederate states—becomes a cesspool of corruption, particularly in the Mississippi Valley. Francis Preston Blair charges that Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase …

Treasury Department Charles Dana Abraham Lincoln Salmon P. Chase Francis Preston Blair +1 more cotton-trade treasury-corruption war-profiteering trading-with-enemy permits