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When Basketball Parallels History

Andrew Johnson got off easy.

Not only was he acquitted on impeachment charges in 1868, the 17th president also escaped the ignominy of being included in the chart below. It would be 23 years after Abraham Lincoln’s successor, a racist foe of Reconstruction, barely escaped removal from office that basketball was invented, and 86 years before the first ACC basketball season was played.

Two other American presidents were impeached during the ACC’s existence and thus are covered by this chart. (A federal official may be impeached by the US House of Representatives yet not be convicted by the Senate.