The Downfall Dictionary
Cataloging the past political scandals of the United States.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Arthur Brown: second time unlucky
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Image from historytogo.utah.gov By some reports, the dissolution of Arthur Brown's first marriage was punctuated by a gunshot. Unlike ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Nehemiah G. Ordway: doubling Dakota
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Image from history.nd.gov The town of Yankton, South Dakota, is one of the southernmost communities in the state. Tucked away near the borde...
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
James Brooks: out of stock
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Image from civil-war.net With the half of the country still missing at the time of the 1864 elections, the question of how to proceed with t...
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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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