March 22

William Woods Holden was the governor of North Carolina in 1871. On the 22nd in 1871, he became the first governor of a state in the United States to be removed from office as the result of an impeachment proceeding. He does not have the prestige associated with being the first governor to be impeached however. That honor goes to Charles Lawrence Robinson, governor of Kansas in 1862, who was the first governor to be impeached, though he was acquitted and was not removed from office.