Friday, December 27, 2013

George E. Foulkes: postal service shakedown

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Photo credit: findagrave.com George Ernest Foulkes would earn a seat in the House of Representatives based on a solid background of go...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Joseph Barker: the street preacher mayor

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Photo credit: brooklineconnection.com To Joseph Barker's supporters in Pittsburgh's 1850 mayoral election, their candidate wa...
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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...