The Downfall Dictionary

Image from kshs.org With just weeks left in his term, Governor Jonathan McMillan Davis of Kansas went after an unexpected target. In ...

Image from nationalgeographic.com Like another Connecticut senator censured several decades after him, Hiram Bingham III's misde...

Image from msnbc.msn.com Otto Kerner, Jr. would be far from the first politician accused of financial misconduct who fought his convic...

Image from e-education.psu.edu Though President Warren G. Harding was never implicated in any of the scandals befalling his administration...

Image from waggonnercenter.org A close friend of Wilbur Mills , a fellow member of the House of Representatives, Joseph David Waggon...

Image from northcarolinahistory.org The competing legacies of William Woods Holden have ensured that opinions on the North Carolina g...

Image from the Pittsburgh Press When it came to exposing political corruption, Drew Pearson's muckraking column "The Washington M...

Image from kaintuckeean.com The fact that John Milton Elliott's defection from the United States during the Civil War did not negative...