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Harper's Weekly,
March 21, 1868, page 179

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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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