Samuel Chase was a Founding Father of the United States,signer of the Continental Association and United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland,and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In 1804,Chase was impeached by the House of Representatives on grounds of letting his partisan leanings affect his court decisions,but was acquitted the following year by the Senate and remained in office. He is the only United States Supreme Court Justice to have ever been impeached.
Walter Atwood Burleigh was an American physician,lawyer,and pioneer. He represented the Dakota Territory as a non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives.
Caesar Augustus Rodney was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington,in New Castle County,Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party,who served in the Delaware General Assembly,as well as a U.S. Representative from Delaware,U.S. Senator from Delaware,U.S. Attorney General,and U.S. Minister to Argentina.
George Washington Campbell was an American statesman who served as a U.S. Representative,Senator,Tennessee Supreme Court Justice,U.S. Ambassador to Russia and the 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury from February to October 1814.
Amos Ellmaker was a U.S. politician,attorney,and judge from Pennsylvania. He served as the Pennsylvania Attorney General and was the Anti-Masonic vice presidential candidate in the 1832 presidential election.
Thomas Smith was a politician and jurist from Pennsylvania.
John Armor Bingham was an American politician who served as a Republican representative from Ohio and as the United States ambassador to Japan. In his time as a congressman,Bingham served as both assistant Judge Advocate General in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination and a House manager (prosecutor) in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson. He was also the principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Woodbury Langdon was an American merchant,politician and justice from Portsmouth,New Hampshire. He was the brother of John Langdon,a Founding Father who served as both senator from and Governor of New Hampshire,and father-in-law of Edmund Roberts.
William Lawrence was a Republican lawyer and politician from Ohio. He was most noted for being a US Representative influential in attempting to impeach President Andrew Johnson,creating the United States Department of Justice,helping to create the American Red Cross,and ratifying the Geneva Convention.
Guy Kurtz Bard was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Robert Whitehill was an American politician who was elected to five terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania,serving from 1805 until his death in 1813.
William W. Irvin also spelled Irwin was a lawyer,farmer,politician,and two-term U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1829 to 1833.
Alfred Conkling was a United States representative from New York,a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York and United States Minister to Mexico.
Thomas Irwin was a United States representative from Pennsylvania and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Cromwell Pearce was a colonel in the U.S. army during the War of 1812,served as sheriff of Chester County,Pennsylvania,and later as an associate judge in the county. He lived in West Chester.
Jasper Yeates (1745–1817) was an American lawyer and judge from Pennsylvania,a justice of the state Supreme Court from 1791 to 1817.
Walter Franklin was a Pennsylvania lawyer,state Attorney General,and state judge.
William Hiester Jr. was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as an Anti-Masonic member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1831 to 1837.
Samuel Chase,an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,was impeached by the United States House of Representatives on March 12,1804 on eight articles of impeachment alleging misconduct. His impeachment trial before the United States Senate delivered an acquittal on March 1,1805,with none of the eight articles receiving the two-thirds majority needed for a conviction.
Similar to the Congress of the United States,state legislatures can impeach state officials,including governors and judicial officers,in every state except Oregon. In addition,the legislatures of the territories of American Samoa,Northern Mariana Islands,and Puerto Rico have impeachment powers. Impeachment describes the process through which the legislature may bring charges and hold a trial with a penalty including removal from office.
