WI: Andrew Johnson Impeached

What if enough votes were garnered in the American senate to remove President Andrew Johnson in 1867?


Nothing much.

His term has only nine months left to run, and US Grant has already been nominated as the Republican candidate for POTUS, so Ben Wade has no chance of an elected term. And Congress has already passed all the major Reconstruction Acts so it's also too late for Wade to have much influence there.

The only possible change is that, if a convicted Johnson is disqualified from holding office under the United States, the Senate might refuse to seat him in 1875. But that is not certain to happen, and even if it did, Tennessee would only choose another Democrat to fill the seat, as it had to do anyway on Johnson's death a few months later. So it's only a very minor ripple.
 
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