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mar 3, 1867 - Tenure of Office Act (Mar 1867)

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Required president to secure consent of Senate before removing appointees once they had been approved to that body; overrode veto by Johnson; Was to freeze Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in place - holdover from Lincoln admin; Was loyal to Johnson but was secretly a spy/informant for radicals

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mar 3, 1867
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~ 159 years ago