John Pickering (22 September 1737 - 11 April 1805) served as Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court and as Judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. He was the first federal official to have been removed from office upon conviction upon impeachment. September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... Events 12 February — The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated. ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Official language(s) English Capital Largest city Concord Manchester Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 46th 24,239 km² 110 km 305 km 3. ... In law, and more specifically, in the Anglo-American common law legal tradition, a superior court is a court of general jurisdiction over all, or major, civil and criminal cases. ... The United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction is comprised of the state of New Hampshire. ... Depiction of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, then President of the United States, in 1868. ...

Born in Newington, New Hampshire, Pickering studied law at Harvard and was admitted to the bar after graduating in 1761. In 1787 he was elected to be a member of the New Hamsphire delegation to the Constitutional Convention, but he declined to serve. He was appointed in 1790 to the New Hampshire Superior Court where he eventually served as Chief Justice. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Pickering assumed the position of Judge on the Federal District Court in April 1795 after an attempt to remove him from the New Hampshire Superior Court due to illness; This attempt had become bogged down in political problems and therefore the state convinced President George Washington to appoint him to the relatively low workload post of the Federal District Court. 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the successful Commander in Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783, and later the first President of the United States, an office to which he was twice elected unanimously (unanimous among the Electoral College...

He recovered from his illness and for the first few years served the Court well. In 1800 problems emerged since he was no longer attending Court as was expected. On 25 April 1801 Court staff wrote to the Judges of the Federal Appeals Court for the First Circuit to send a temporary replacement for the Judge on the grounds that he had gone insane. 1800 (MDCCC) was an common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... The United States courts of appeals (or circuit courts) are the mid-level appellate courts of the United States federal court system. ...

As a stop-gap measure, Circuit Judge Jeremiah Smith sat for part of the 1801 session of the Court. In March 1802, Pickering returned, adjourned the Court's business to the next day and then disappeared again. He had reappeared by June of that year and sat to consider United States v. Eliza, a case concerning a ship seized in violation of revenue laws. Allegedly, Pickering was drunk and raved profanities throughout the trial. Jeremiah Smith (November 29, 1759–September 21, 1842) was an American lawyer, jurist and politician from Exeter, New Hampshire. ...

Political controversy waged in the Congress with Federalists accusing Democratic-Republicans of trying to usurp the Constitution by attempting to remove the Judge from office though he had committed neither high crimes nor misdemeanors as required by the Constitution. The term federalist refers to a proponent of one of several different ideologies, depending on the locale or subject matter. ... The Democratic-Republican party was a United States political party, which evolved early in the history of the United States. ...

On 4 February 1803 President Thomas Jefferson sent evidence to the U.S. House of Representatives who voted to impeach Pickering on 2 March, 1803 on charges of drunkenness and unlawful rulings. The U.S. Senate tried the Impeachment the next year beginning 4 January 1804 and convicted him of all charges presented by the House by a vote of 19 to 7 on 12 March 1804. February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 N.S. – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential founders of the United States. ... The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ... March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...