<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Leading to the impeachment, Independent Counsel Ken Starr turned over documentation to the House Judiciary Committee . Chief Prosecutor David Schippers and his team reviewed the material and determined there was sufficient evidence to impeach the president . As a result, four charges were considered by the full House of Representatives; two passed, making Clinton the second president to be impeached, after Andrew Johnson in 1868, and only the third against whom articles of impeachment had been brought before the full House for consideration (Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency in 1974, while an impeachment process against him was underway). </P> <P> The trial in the United States Senate began right after the seating of the 106th Congress, in which the Republican Party held 55 Senate seats . A two - thirds vote (67 senators) was required to remove Clinton from office . 50 senators voted to remove Clinton on the obstruction of justice charge and 45 voted to remove him on the perjury charge; no member of his own Democratic Party voted guilty on either charge . Clinton, like Johnson a century earlier, was acquitted on all charges . </P>

Who was the second president to be impeached