The Downfall Dictionary
Cataloging the past political scandals of the United States.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Orville E. Hodge: high flying lifestyle
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Hodge is fingerprinted by Paul Terrill, chief investigator for the Sangamon County Sheriff's Department, following his arrest in July...
Friday, August 9, 2013
Thomas Heflin: even bad men love their mommas
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Photo credit: bioguide.congress.gov "Cotton Tom" Heflin had a curious pair of choices in what he considered to be his accompl...
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
William J. Janklow: need for speed
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Image from npr.org In 1979, as a way of showing solidarity with citizens coping with gas shortages, South Dakota Governor William Jo...
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Jonathan M. Davis: pardon me boys
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Image from kshs.org With just weeks left in his term, Governor Jonathan McMillan Davis of Kansas went after an unexpected target. In ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Hiram Bingham: dodgy lobbying
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Image from nationalgeographic.com Like another Connecticut senator censured several decades after him, Hiram Bingham III's misde...
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Otto Kerner: tainted reputation
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Image from msnbc.msn.com Otto Kerner, Jr. would be far from the first politician accused of financial misconduct who fought his convic...
Friday, August 10, 2012
Albert B. Fall: tempest in a teapot
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Image from e-education.psu.edu Though President Warren G. Harding was never implicated in any of the scandals befalling his administration...
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