Impeached 1912, for unlawfully, and through his influence as
a judge, making contracts and obtaining options, valuable to him,
from railroad companies and others, who were litigants before
him ; for accepting presents of money, from lawyers and litigants
to pay his expenses on a pleasure trip; for appointing as com-
missioner of jurors, a general attorney for a railroad company.
Archbald answered.
Convicted, removed, and disqualified.
Managers. — Henry D. Clayton, Edwin Y. Webb, John C.
Floyd, John W. Davis, John A. Sterling, Paul Howland and
•George W. Worris.
Respondent's counsel. — E. W. Archbald, Jr., A. P. Worth-
ington, M. J. Martin and Alexander Simpson.
State impeachment

Arkansas
Powell Clayton, Governor of Arkansas.
Impeached, 1871, for conspiring with members of the state
Supreme Court to unlawfully deprive Lieutenant Governor James
W. Johnson of his office, to which he had been elected and for
which he had duly qualified; for unlawfully removing a county
probate judge; for aiding in frauds in the election of members
of the state legislature ; for accepting bribes, etc.
At the same time a resolution was passed, suspending Clayton
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the House of Kepresentatives by force locked him into the execu-
tive chamber and nailed the door, in order that he might not
escape and act. The next day he notified the Assembly that lie
was advised by counsel that the Assembly had no power to sus-
pend him from office.
The next day after the impeachment of Governor Clayton the
House of Representatives adopted a resolution of impeachment
against John McClure, chief justice of the state, for engaging in
the conspiracy with the Governor above mentioned.
