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
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.
Warren Harding
The teapot dome scandal invovled which two officials?
he forced the officials involved in the scandals to resign
the scandel involved the buying of the stocks on maargin by some government officials
Calvin Coolidge was the veep when Harding died and so became president.
The Teapot Dome scandal became infamous during the administration of Warren G. Harding. Albert Fall, the Secretary of the Interior was convicted to accepting bribes from private oil companies to acquire oil leases on federal lands such as the Tea Dome in Wyoming.
Members of the Cabinet were implicated in the Teapot Dome Scandal, but not the then President.
Teapot Dome Scandal
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Warren Harding was the president associated with the Teapot Dome Scandal.
The teapot dome scandal invovled which two officials?
Political cartoon of the teapot dome scandal?
Warren G. Harding was president during the Teapot Dome scandal. He died in office, however, and was succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.
President Warren G. Harding
No there were several before him including Harding's infamous teapot dome scandal and Grant's whiskey ring. Idk who was first.
Calvin Coolidge was the vice-president and was not involved in the Tea Pot Dome or any other scandal.
Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding