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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]
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.
Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, chief perpetrator of the Teapot Dome bribery scandal. Warren G. Harding was elected president by promising to return the nation to "normalcy", and opposing the idealism of his predecessor Woodrow Wilson. He captured 60% of Americans’ votes and won by a landslide.
Albert Fall was indicted, convicted and imprisoned for his role in the Teapot Dome and other oil scandals, becoming the first member of a president’s Cabinet to be convicted of a felony while in ...
The Teapot Dome Scandal. This 1920s scandal had it all: “ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, ... Albert Fall, “had bypassed the ...
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 ...
The resulting scandal broke soon after that, over similar bribes Fall accepted for leasing Teapot Dome in Wyoming. Doheny was charged with bribing Fall but, in 1930, was acquitted. His son, Ned, who had delivered the money, and assistant Hugh Plunkett were also charged, but died before they could be tried. [28]
Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior, was bribed by Harry F. Sinclair for control of the Teapot Dome federal oil reserves in Wyoming. He was the first U.S. cabinet member to ever be convicted; he served two years in prison. (1922) [122] Edwin C. Denby, Secretary of the Navy, resigned for his part in the Teapot Dome oil reserve scandal. [123]