Editing Radical Republicans (section)

===Impeachment===
{{further|Impeachment of Andrew Johnson}}
[[File:Edwin McMasters Stanton Secretary of War.jpg|thumb|left|[[Edwin Stanton|Edwin McMasters Stanton]], Lincoln's Secretary of War, whom Johnson tried to remove from office]]
The Radical plan was to remove Johnson from office, but the first effort at the impeachment trial of President Johnson went nowhere. After Johnson violated the [[Tenure of Office Act (1867)|Tenure of Office Act]] by dismissing [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] [[Edwin M. Stanton]], the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] voted 126–47 to impeach him, but the [[United States Senate|Senate]] acquitted him in 1868 in three 35–19 votes, failing to reach the 36 votes threshold required for a conviction; by that time, however, Johnson had lost most of his power.<ref>Michael Les Benedict, ''The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson'' (1999)</ref>