Historians school Pence for praising senator who allegedly took bribes to acquit Andrew Johnson

Vice President Mike Pence has written a column praising Edmund Ross, a Republican senator from Kansas who cast the decisive vote that acquitted President Andrew Johnson in his impeachment trial.

“At the close of the trial on May 16, 1868, [Ross] stayed true to his convictions, opposed the passions of his own party, and voted to acquit Johnson,” Pence writes in a Wall Street Journal column published this week. “He faced social ostracism and physical assault. Still, he knew he was right.”

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