MATHEW BRADY (1823-1896)

Managers of the House of Representatives of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, 1868

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MATHEW BRADY (1823-1896)
Managers of the House of Representatives of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, 1868
mammoth-plate albumen print
signed (in the image); signed in ink by the sitters, printed artist and sitters' credits, title and annotation 'Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868, by Brady & Co, in the Clerk's Office of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia' (on the mount)
14 5/8 x 17½in. (37.3 x 44.4cm.)

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With Emmanuel Kean Archives, Philadelphia; acquired 1980s

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Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) was the 17th President of the United States (1865-69), succeeding to the Presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first President to be impeached.
Brady's image depicts the Managers of the House of Representatives during Johnson's troubled Presidency. Left to right they are as follows: Benjamin F. Butler (Mass.); James F. Wilson (Iowa); Thaddeus Stevens (Penn.); George S. Boutwell (Mass.); Thomas Williams (Penn.); John A Logan (Ill.); and JNO Bingham (Ohio).