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The impeachment trial of Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876, where the Senate asserted jurisdiction and held a full trial despite Belknap's resignation.
is vanishingly rare in history: the post-Civil War case of in 1876 is the canonical example, and the House’s 2024 impeachment of reopened a long-dormant tool of whose practical outcome—Senate acquitta...
Two distinct threads in American history answer whether the Senate can try cabinet officials who have already left office: the 1876 impeachment and trial of Secretary of War William Belknap, where the...
, ’s Secretary of War, was in 1876 over a long-running trader-post kickback scheme but resigned minutes before the House vote; nevertheless tried him, found a majority voting “guilty” on the articles ...