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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 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]
McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 (1927), was a case heard before the Supreme Court, decided on January 17, 1927.It was a challenge to Mally Daugherty's contempt conviction and arrest, which happened when he failed to appear before a Senate committee investigating the failure of his brother, Attorney General Harry Daugherty, to investigate the perpetrators of the Teapot Dome Scandal.
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 ...
Paul Y. Anderson (August 29, 1893 – December 6, 1938) was an American journalist.He was a pioneering muckraker and played a role in exposing the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s.
He was associated with a house at 1625 K Street (later to become notorious as the Little Green House on K Street) and became an embarrassment to Harding and Daugherty as the Teapot Dome scandal focused increased scrutiny on Harding and his supporters. [3] Before leaving for Alaska, Harding told Daugherty he wanted Smith out of Washington. [1]
These included the Teapot Dome scandal and apparent malfeasance at the U.S. Department of Justice, some of which ended in prison terms and a suicide. Following Harding's sudden death of a heart attack in 1923, many members of the Ohio Gang were effectively removed from the corridors of power by Harding's vice president and successor, Calvin ...
Teapot Dome scandal, a bribery scandal (1921–1923) Teapot Rock or Teapot Dome, oilfield at the center of the scandal TeaPot Party , an advocacy group formed by Willie Nelson