| Birth: | Nov. 26, 1861 | | Death: | Nov. 30, 1944 | 
US Senator, Presidential Cabinet Secretary. Served as a Senator from from New Mexico from 1912-21. Also served as Justice of New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court in 1893 and as Secretary of the Interior from 1921-23 in the administration of Warren Harding. Central figure in the Teapot Dome scandal that shook the Harding Administration, Fall was convicted in 1929 of accepting a bribe for leasing government-owned oil reserves at Teapot Dome to private companies. He was sentenced to a year in prison in 1931, and died in poverty.
Search Amazon for Albert Bacon Fall | | | Burial:
Evergreen Alameda Cemetery
El Paso
El Paso County
Texas, USA
Plot: Section K Lot 211 Space 2
GPS (lat/lon): 31.46406, -106.26406 |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jun 03, 2000
Find A Grave Memorial# 9688 |
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Susan Bronstad Rasmussen
Added: Mar. 25, 2013 |
Albert Bacon Fall: Sir, thank you for serving as as Secretary of the Interior from 1921-23, remembering you 68 years later, may you rest in peace!
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MFPS
Added: Nov. 30, 2012 |
God bless you on your birthday. Rest in Peace.
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Thelma
Added: Nov. 26, 2012 |
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