Rip Van Winkle adapted for other media for the last two centuries, in cartoons, films, stage plays, music, and other media. Rip Van Winkle "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham, England, as part of the collection "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." The story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, but Irving later
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