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Lorenzo Thomas (1804-1875) was an American officer in the United States Army who was Adjutant General of the Army at the beginning of the American Civil War. After the war, he was appointed temporary Secretary of War by U.S. President Andrew Johnson, precipitating Johnson's impeachment. Autograph Letter Signed “L. Thomas, Agt. Gen’l”, 2pp., datelined Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, Feby 28, 1867, written to Major General Rbrt C. Schenck, House of Representatives. In part “I desire to express my warm thanks to you .. in which yesterday reported and had passed a bill for the increase of pay ... for General Officers ...” From the the House, February 24, 1868, this resolution passed the House. “Mr. Johnson's veto of the Tenure-of-Office Bill, and the passage of that bill over his veto, of course intensified the antagonism between himself and Congress. He not unnaturally regarded that Act as an infringement of the Executive function which it was his duty to his office and to himself to resent. The culmination came upon his official notification to the Senate on February 21st, 1868, of his removal of Mr. Stanton from the office of Secretary of War, and his appointment of Gen. Lorenzo Thomas as Secretary ad interim ... Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors in office....” Scheneck voted in the affirmative.
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