page_title: Teapot Dome scandal
hierarchical_section_title: Teapot Dome scandal
caption_attribution_description: English: ORIGINAL SOURCE TITLE: Edward L. Doheny testifying before the Senate Comm. investigating the Tea Pot Oil Leases CALL NUMBER: LOT 12296, v. 1 [item] [P&amp;P] Check for an online group record (may link to related items) REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-51319 (b&amp;w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1924 Jan. 24. NOTES: Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. In album: Washington, D.C., 1924, v. 1, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 28779. Chron. album. Doheny, Edward Laurence, 1856-1935. Caption card tracings: Tea Pot; Congress; PI; Shelf. FORMAT: Photographic prints 1920-1930. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (b&amp;w film copy neg.) cph 3a51362 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a51362 CARD #: 2002695650
context_page_description: The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming as well as two locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. The leases were the subject of a seminal investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison; no one was convicted of paying the bribes.
  Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics". It damaged the reputation of the Harding administration, which was already severely diminished by its controversial handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and Harding's veto of the Bonus Bill in 1922. Congress subsequently passed legislation, enduring to this day, giving subpoena power to the House and Senate for review of tax records of any U.S. citizen regardless of elected or appointed position.
context_section_description: The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming as well as two locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. The leases were the subject of a seminal investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison; no one was convicted of paying the bribes.
  Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics". It damaged the reputation of the Harding administration, which was already severely diminished by its controversial handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and Harding's veto of the Bonus Bill in 1922. Congress subsequently passed legislation, enduring to this day, giving subpoena power to the House and Senate for review of tax records of any U.S. citizen regardless of elected or appointed position. These resulting laws are also considered to have empowered the role of Congress more generally.
caption: Oil businessman Edward L. Doheny (at table, second from right) testifying before the Senate committee investigating the Teapot Dome oil leases, 1924
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