George Vickers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Vickers

American politician

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1801

Place of Birth: Chestertown, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 08-Oct-1879

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About George Vickers

  • George Vickers (November 19, 1801 – October 8, 1879), a Democrat, was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1868 to 1873.
  • He cast the deciding vote in the Senate that saved U.S.
  • President Andrew Johnson from impeachment.
  • Vickers also served in the Maryland State Senate. Vickers was born in Chestertown, Maryland, and was employed in the Kent County, Maryland clerk’s office for several years.
  • He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1832, commencing practice in Chestertown. He also served as a major general of the Maryland State Militia during the Civil War.
  • Of his four sons, one fought for the North while a second son, Benjamin Vickers, fought in the Confederate 2nd Tennessee Regiment and was killed at the Battle of Shiloh.In 1864, Vickers served as presidential elector on the Democratic ticket, and was vice president of the National Union Convention of Conservatives in Philadelphia in 1866.
  • He served as a member of the Maryland State Senate from 1866 to 1867, and was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the action of the Senate in declining to permit Philip F.
  • Thomas to qualify. Just as Vickers was named to the Senate, the impeachment of U.S.
  • President Andrew Johnson had begun.
  • Radical Republicans were trying to remove Johnson because of his moderate views on Reconstruction.
  • Supporters of the President crossed the Chesapeake Bay in an iceboat, woke Vickers in the middle of the night, and notified him that the Republican effort to block his election to the Senate had failed.
  • Vickers rushed to Washington, was sworn in on March 7, 1868, and shortly after cast the deciding vote against the impeachment of President Johnson.After his term in the Senate, which lasted until March 3, 1873, Vickers resumed the practice of law in Chestertown, and died there in 1879.
  • He is interred in Chester Cemetery.

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