How do you think the teapot dome effected future presidential and cabinet elections – HELP HISTORY QUESTION?
The clouds of political scandal encircled and endangered the Warren G. Harding administration in 1923. Had he not died in San Francisco, on August 2, 1923, our 29th president may have faced impeachment, as he headed into his re-election campaign. The president surrounded himself with many distinguished men, such as Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, and Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, but he also brought to Washington a thoroughly unsavory lot of grafters: Interior Secretary Albert Fall sold for personal gain the nation’s oil reserves at Wyoming’s Teapot Dome. Thomas Miller, the alien property custodian, was convicted of accepting bribes. Jess Smith, bagman for the operation and personal aide to Attorney General Daugherty, destroyed his papers and committed suicide shortly after Harding demanded his resignation. Another suicide victim, Charles Cramer, was an aide to Charles Forbes, the corrupt director of the Veteran’s bureau who skimmed the p
