Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 – November 30, 1944)
On this day in 1929, during the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B.
Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren
G. Harding’s cabinet, was found guilty of accepting a bribe while
in office. Fall, a U.S. senator from New Mexico, was the first
individual to be convicted of a crime committed while a
presidential cabinet member.
Warren Gamaliel Harding
(November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923)