william adams richardson john d. sanborn $427,000 in unpaid taxes
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Sanborn Contract 1874
William Adams Richardson
John D. Sanborn $427,000 in
unpaid taxes
Whiskey Ring 1876
St. Louis, Chicago. Milwaukee, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Peoria
US Treasury Secretary Benjamin H. Bristow
Orville E. Babcock, Grant’s Private Secretary
The cartoon is by Thomas Nast and is from March of 1876 in Harper's Weekly
Whiskey Ring
Orville Babcock
Benjamin Bristow
James Broadhead
John Brooks Henderson
Trading Post Ring 1876
William Belknap, US Secretary of War
Carrie Belknap
1876 – 1899
Election of Rutherford B. Hayes (1876)
Star Route Postal Contracts (1881) Pres. Garfield is Assassinated (1881) Corruption in Dakota Territory (1884) Mugwumps (1884)
Election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes
La Fayette Grover
Samuel J. Tilden
Star Route Postal Contracts
Began during Grant Administration Bradley Barlow Stephen W. Dorsey Presidents Hayes, Garfield & Arthur
Garfield Assassination Williams College Baltimore and Pacific Railroad Charles Guiteau
The Assassination of President James A. Garfield
The Presidency of Chester Arthur
Product of the Patronage System
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Independent Executive
Corruption in Dakota Territory
Governor Nehemiah George Ordway
Capital from Yankton to Bismarck
Richard G. Pettigrew
Gilbert A. Pierce
Mugwumps & the Election of 1884
Divisions within Republican Party
James Blaine Cleveland (D) won
Presidency
Lesson Ideas
My History Space
The National History Enquirer News Report
“WE HAVE THE BEST GOVERNMENT THAT MONEY CAN BUY.”
MARK TWAIN
Political Scandals of the Gilded Age
Dee Ann Owens