Rip Van Winkle (1903 film) Rip Van Winkle (1903 film) Rip Van Winkle is a 1903 American short black-and-white silent compilation film written and directed by William K.L. Dickson. It is adapted from the play by his friend and investor Joseph Jefferson with Dion Boucicault based on the story of the same name by Washington Irving. The film features Joseph Jefferson as a ne'er-do-well, who wanders off one day into the Kaatskill mountains where he drinks some of a group odd men's mysterious brew and passes out only to find when waking up that 20 years have passed. The film is compiled from a series
Peter G. Van Winkle Winkle, Daniel S. Norton, and Edmund G. Ross of Kansas, who provided the decisive vote, defied their party and public opinion and voted against impeachment (which failed by one vote). After the trial, Congressman Benjamin Butler conducted hearings concerning widespread reports that Republican senators had been bribed to vote for Johnson's acquittal. In Butler's hearings, and subsequent inquiries, some evidence indicated that some acquittal votes were acquired by promises of patronage jobs and cash. 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