been manipulated in order to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence. The other senators who voted against impeachment along with him were James Dixon, James Rood Doolittle, William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, James W. Grimes, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Daniel S. Norton, and Edmund G. Ross (the latter of whom provided the decisive vote). After the trial, Congressman Benjamin Butler conducted hearings on the widespread reports that Republican senators had been bribed to vote for Johnson's acquittal. In Butler's hearings, and in subsequent inquiries, there was increasing evidence that some acquittal votes were acquired by promises of patronage jobs and cash cards. West Virginia Governor Arthur Boreman was elected to succeed Van Winkle. Van Winkle also served as a delegate to the Southern Loyalist Convention at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1866. Death and legacy Van Winkle died in Parkersburg in 1872, survived by a son and daughter. He was buried beside his wife (whom he had survived by nearly three decades) in Riverview Cemetery. Marshall Van Winkle, Peter Van Winkle's grandnephew, was a U.S. Representative from New Jersey in the Fifty-ninth Congress. His former home at Parkersburg, now known as the Peter G. Van Winkle House, is a contributing property in the Julia-Ann Square Historic District. References 1808 births 1872 deaths Politicians from New York City Godwin Family American people of Dutch descent Unconditional Union Party United States senators from West Virginia Republican Party United States senators from West Virginia West Virginia Unconditional Unionists Republican Party members of the West Virginia House of Delegates Politicians from Parkersburg, West Virginia Trustees of populated places in Virginia People of West Virginia in the American Civil War Delegates of the 1861 Wheeling Convention