The Downfall Dictionary
Cataloging the past political scandals of the United States.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Harold G. Hoffman: laughing all the way to the bank
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Hoffman leaves the funeral of Ellis Parker in 1940. Image from pro.corbis.com. Late in the evening on October 17, 1935, Bruno Hauptmann rece...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Charles E. Bowles: another mayoral Klandidate
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Source: freep.com Hampered in large part by the sensational murder trial of David Curtis Stephenson and the widespread exposure of co...
Monday, October 19, 2009
Philemon T. Herbert: breakfast brawl
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Image unavailable The years leading up to the Civil War were fraught with all manner of violent incidents, as the volatile question of slave...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
J. Herbert Burke: only there for the articles
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Image from bioguide.congress.gov By 1978, J. Herbert Burke had firmly established himself as the representative from Florida's 10th Dist...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Preston S. Brooks: dignity vs. decorum
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Image from clerk.house.gov The brutal attack of Preston Smith Brooks on a fellow congressman was not the first time violence had erupted on ...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Sherman Adams: a coating of scandal
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Adams announces his resignation. Image from pro.corbis.com. Llewelyn Sherman Adams, better known by his latter two names, officially hel...
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