Andrew Johnson
History Thursday: Inauguration of first Ohio-born president was controversial
A controversial transfer of power. Traditions going by the wayside. A divided country on edge. Much about the 1869 inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant, the first Ohio-born politician to become president, resembles the year 2021. Americans closely followed the melodrama surrounding the transition from President Andrew Johnson to President-elect Grant, with newspapers around the country […]
Ohio Republican congressman once tried to oust a president who played ‘king of the people’
WASHINGTON — A president was on trial. Unpopular with leaders in Congress since the day he was elected, he made a firing decision that became the final straw. And a congressman from Ohio was left to argue the case for his impeachment. It was 1868. The first president to face impeachment in the United States […]