Yes he was. Only two presidents have been officially impeached in history, the first being Andrew Johnson and the second being Bill Clinton. Richard Nixon was tried for impeachment but resigned before the court ever made its' final decision.
Principally by being the first President to be impeached. (He was acquitted.)
Congress passed a bill of impeachment in February , 1868. He was not convicted.
Andrew Jonson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th president born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was the vice president under Abraham Lincoln and the first president to become so as a result of an assasination and also the first president to be impeached.
Johnson was vice-president under Lincoln. After Lincoln was killed, Johnson became president.
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It was in mid April , 1865 that Lincoln was killed and Johnson became president.
Andrew Johnson was the only former president to become a senator.
Andrew Johnson, in 1868, was impeached and avoided conviction by one vote in the Senate. Andrew Johnson was the 17th US President, who succeeded to the office in 1865 when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He was a Democrat elected VP in Lincoln's "National Union" party, and ran afoul of the Radical Republicans in Congress. When he tried to fire a Cabinet member, he was impeached, but not convicted. He privately agreed to let the Republicans run Reconstruction in the South, and was helped by the fact that few wanted the President Pro Tempore (senator Benjamin Wade) to become President.
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson of Tennessee was the only senator from the South that remained in his senatorial seat after the outbreak of the rebellion. He would become the 17th president of the US after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April of 1865. He also would become the first president to be impeached.
He was elected Vice-President and was first in the line of succession to the presidency when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. The Radical Republicans did not like Johnson for a multitude of reasons, one was being a Democrat. The Republican congress fought Johnson on Reconstruction issues and finally impeached him. He was tried and found not guilty by one vote.