Category: Impeachment

Halsted L Ritter, who served on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, was impeached and removed from office in 1936. Ritter challenged the impeachment by arguing that he was not convicted on any specific charge but only “gen...

Harold Louderback, a U.S. District judge for the Northern District of California, was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1933, on charges of favoritism in the appointment of bankruptcy receivers. However, he beat the impeachment charge...

Judge George W English George W English, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois, was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for abusing his power. When he resigned from office, the impeachment proceedings wer...

Robert W Archbald was the third person to be removed from federal office. The federal judge was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on July 11, 1912, for engaging in improper business relationship with litigants that appeared in his court....

District Court Judge Charles Swayne Charles Swayne served as a U.S. District Court judge for the Northern District of Florida from 1890 to 1907. Judge Swayne’s judicial career was almost cut short when he was impeached by the U.S. House of Represe...

Mark W Delahay, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1873 for being intoxicated on the bench. Delahay resigned from the bench prior to his trial before the U.S. Senate. ...

West H. Humphreys, who served as a judge for U.S. District Court for the Middle, Eastern, and Western Districts of Tennessee, was impeached in 1862 after he advocated in favor of succession and joined the Confederacy. He was the only federal official...

U.S. District Court for the District of Missouri Judge James H. Peck was the third judicial officer impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. The Senate, however, found him not guilty of the abuse of power charges. Federal Judgeship  Born in...

John Pickering served as chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature and as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. However, he is most remembered as the first federal officer to be impeached. Earl...