The House of Representatives voted unanimously Thursday to impeach a federal judge from Louisiana.

With the vote, Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana became the 15th federal judge in the nation's history to be impeached by the House, the body said in a news release.

"Our investigation found that Judge Porteous participated in a pattern of corrupt conduct for years," said U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Task Force on Judicial Impeachment.