• Tenure of Office Act may refer to: Tenure of Office Act (1820) Tenure of Office Act (1867) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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    The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law, in force from 1867 to 1887, that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove...
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  • Tenure of Office may refer to: Academic tenure Burrowing (politics), tenure by political contrivance Tenure of Office Act (disambiguation) Term of office...
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  • The Tenure of Office Act of 1820, also known as the Four Years' Law, was passed on May 15, 1820 by the United States Congress, and purported to be "an...
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    Johnson was that he had violated the Tenure of Office Act. Specifically, that he had acted to remove from office Edwin Stanton and to replace him with...
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    opposition. As the conflict grew between the branches of government, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act restricting Johnson's ability to fire Cabinet officials...
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    violating the 1867 Tenure of Office Act by attempting to remove Secretary of War Edwin Stanton from office and name Lorenzo Thomas secretary of war ad interim...
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  • A life tenure or service during good behaviour is a term of office that lasts for the office holder's lifetime, unless the office holder is removed from...
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    Stanton's retention and stated that the Tenure of Office Act protected Stanton. Further, Grant said, should the tenure law prove impotent, public opinion would...
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    (Elections) Act 1896, c. 1 Local Government (Elections) (No.2) Act 1896, c. 4 Local Government Act 1897, c. 1 Parish Councillors (Tenure of Office) Act 1899...
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    in 1868. As the conflict between the branches of government grew, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, restricting Johnson's ability to fire Cabinet...
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  • addressed by the articles of impeachment was President Johnson's effort to, in disregard for the Tenure of Office Act, dismiss Secretary of War Edwin Stanton...
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    body's consent. The Tenure of Office Act was ambiguous since it could be read to protect officeholders only during the tenure of the president who appointed...
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    the return of approximately 81,000,000 acres (330,000 km2). Cleveland was the first Democratic president subject to the Tenure of Office Act which originated...
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    the Tenure of Office Act, Johnson discharged Secretary of War Edwin Stanton without Senate approval and appointed Grant ad interim Secretary of War....
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    The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887) regulated land rights on tribal territories within the...
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    inquiry against Andrew Johnson. He also voted during this time for the Tenure of Office Act, which ensured that Johnson could not remove administration officials...
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    fifteen of Johnson's twenty-nine vetoes. Furthermore, it attempted to curb the power of the presidency by passing the Tenure of Office Act. The Act required...
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    Coinage Act of 1873 or Mint Act of 1873 was a general revision of laws relating to the Mint of the United States. By ending the right of holders of silver...
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    The Comstock Act of 1873 is a series of current provisions in federal law, largely codified across title 18 of the United States Code and enacted beginning...
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    was still in office. By coincidence, $4,000 ($88,100 in 2010 dollars) would be the exemption for married couples when the Revenue Act of (October) 1913...
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  • of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000. The word is the Scots variant of fee. The English had in 1660 abolished these tenures, with An Act Taking Away...
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    Senate fell one vote short of conviction.) The House's primary charge against Johnson was with violation of the Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress the...
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    impeaches President Johnson on eleven articles of impeachment for violating the Tenure of Office Act. May 26, 1868: The Senate narrowly votes against...
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    Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required...
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    Benjamin Wade (category People of the Reconstruction Era)
    Representatives impeached President Johnson for his defiance of the Tenure of Office Act; Wade's unpopularity with his senatorial Moderate Republican...
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  • dismiss and replace Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act. That day, an impeachment resolution was forwarded to the select...
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  • president's veto, the Tenure of Office Act, which prohibited the president from removing certain federal officials without the approval of the United States...
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    regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later...
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  • to the Union. The actual title of the initial legislation was "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the Rebel States" and was passed...
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