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The Teapot Dome scandal took place during the administration (1921-1923) of US president Warren G. Harding.

Teapot Dome is an oil field on public land in the U.S. state of Wyoming, taking its name from Teapot Rock, an outcrop resembling a teapot south of the field.

His Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, had secretly leased the Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming to one Harry F Sinclair. For this and other corrupt acts Fall was convicted in 1929 of accepting a bribe, and sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of $100,000.

In 1921, by executive order of President Harding, control of U.S. Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and at Elk Hills and Buena Vista in California, was transferred from the U.S. Navy Department to the Department of the Interior. The petroleum reserves had been set aside for the Navy by President Taft.

Although Harding was not involved in any of the shady dealings, Albert Fall was his appointee to the position of Secretary of the Interior and thus Harding's reputation suffered a severe and irreparable blow. (He was extremely popular at the time of his death when the scandal was just being exposed.)

The oil fields were restored to the U.S. government through a Supreme Court decision in 1927

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President Warren G. Harding was the President. His Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, was bribed to sell oil leases on government land to certain oil companies. This was one of several scandals in the Harding administration, from March 4, 1921 to August 2, 1923, when Harding died in office.

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