U.S. President History
1860 - At the Republican convention in Chicago, IL, Abraham Lincoln was selected as the party's candidate for president.
1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted during the Senate impeachment, by one vote.
2000 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was nominated to run for U.S. Senator in New York. She was the first U.S. first lady to run for public office.
| "I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house, and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but wise men ever rule under this roof!" - U.S. First Lady Abigail Adams about the new Executive Mansion. |