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 18 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS from the south, and on these speeches were based additional articles of impeachment. On May 16 the test vote was had. Thirty-five senators were for conviction and nineteen for acquittal. The change of one vote would have carried conviction. The senate adjourned sine die, and a verdict of acquittal was entered. After the expiration of his term the president returned to Tennessee. He was a candidate for the U. S. senate, but was defeated. In 1872 he was a candidate for congressman from the state- at-large, and, though defeated, he regained his hold upon the people of the state, and in January, 1875, was elected to the senate, taking his seat at the extra session of 1875. Two weeks after the ses sion began he made a speech which was a skilful but bitter attack upon Gen. Grant. He returned home at the end of the session, and in July visited his daughter, who lived near Carter s station in east Tennessee. There he was stricken with paraly sis, July 29, and died the next day. He was buried at Greenville. His &quot;Speeches&quot; were pub lished with a biographical introduction by Frank Moore (Boston, 1865), and his &quot;Life and Times&quot; were written by John Savage (New York, 1866). See also &quot;The Tailor Boy&quot; (Boston, 1865), and &quot;The Trial of Andrew Johnson on Impeachment&quot; (3 vols., Washington, 1868). His wife, ELIZA McCARDLE, b. in Leesburg,