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THE IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS
We give on the front page of this issue the portraits of the seven
"Managers of the Impeachment," as the members who were elected by the House of
Representatives to conduct the trial on the part of the people are called. John A.
Bingham, of Ohio, the chairman, is noted for his prominence in various great criminal
trials, including that of the assassins of President Lincoln, and he was also the Chairman
of the House Managers who prosecuted West H. Humphreys, impeached a few years since on
charge of uttering secession sentiments, preferred by Andrew Johnson, then Military
Governor of Tennessee. He is a native of Pennsylvania, and is now fifty-three years of
age. George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, is among the most positive and unflinching as
well as one of the ablest of the impeachers, and was originally elected chairman of the
managers, but resigned in favor of Mr. Bingham. With General John A. Logan and Benjamin
Butler the whole country is familiar, their military and legal abilities having in times
past been made clearly manifest. James F. Wilson, of Iowa, is now but forty years of age,
but as a leading senator of his State, and as its representative in three several
Congresses, he has displayed marked abilities, which entitle him to take high rank as a
lawyer even among those with whom he is associated in the great trial of the age. His
legal career has been a very successful one, and he has served as a legislator in the
three last Congresses with great credit. Thomas Williams, of Pennsylvania, is a native of
Pennsylvania, and sixty-two years of age. His legal career has been a very successful one,
and he has served as a legislator in the three last Congresses with great credit.
PORTRAITS OF THE MANAGERS TO
CONDUCT
THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON
March 21, 1868 page 177 (cover)
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