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L-R: Senator Raeburn C. Horne, Senator Scott Dilworth Clarke, Senator Addison Drummond, Representative George E. Holt, and Representative George W. Leaird.
Biographical Note
Articles of impeachment have been voted five times by the House of Representatives and two cases carried to a vote in the Senate. The first completed case was the trial of Circuit Judge George E. Holt of Miami in 1957. Judge Holt had been accused by the House of bringing his court into disrepute, mainly through the awarding of fees which were claimed to be excessive. The Senate returned to the capitol on July 8, and sat as a court for 23 working days before voting on August 15. The vote was 20 to 14 against Judge Holt but since the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators voting was necessary to convict, Judge Holt was acquitted by three votes.
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