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How did Johnson react to this challenge of the Tenure of Office Act?

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Tenure of Office Act, in the post-Civil War period of U.S. history, the law forbidding the president to remove civil officers without senatorial consent. The law was passed over Pres. Andrew Jonhnson's veto by Radical Republicans in Congress in their struggle to wrest control of Reconstruction from Johnson.

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