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The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding.It centered on Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall, who had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. [1]
Teapot Rock, also Teapot Dome, is a distinctive sedimentary rock formation and nearby oil field in Natrona County, Wyoming that became the focus of the Teapot Dome bribery scandal during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1]
The Teapot Dome Station, 1987. The station was built in 1922 on what later became U.S. Route 12. The building has a circular frame with a conical roof, sheet metal "handle", and a concrete "spout". Many such novelties were constructed as roadside attractions as the national highway system in the United States expanded during the 1920s and 1930s.
Opinion: Author Jack McElroy has fascinating morsels on Fayette County's Carl Magee, whose role in revealing the Teapot Dome affair was just the start 100 years ago, a former Iowan exposed the ...
Harry Micajah Daugherty (/ ˈ d oʊ. ər t i /; January 26, 1860 – October 12, 1941) was an American politician.A key Republican political insider from Ohio, he is best remembered for his service as Attorney General of the United States under presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, as well as for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal during Harding's presidency.
Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 – November 30, 1944) was a United States senator from New Mexico and Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding who became infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal; he was the only person convicted as a result of the affair.
A U.S. Senate investigation found that Interior Secretary Albert Fall (yes, the “Fall Guy”) and other Harding cronies had profited from the leasing of a U.S. Petroleum Reserve named Teapot ...
Teapot Dome gas station, Zillah, Washington 1987. 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format). Notes: Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Mimetic gas stations; Gas stations. Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.