# Canonical recap data for Teapot Dome Scandal Emerges (1921)
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slug: teapot-dome-scandal
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1921/teapot-dome-scandal"
title: Teapot Dome Scandal Emerges
subtitle: Interior Secretary Albert Fall's secret oil lease agreements sparked the worst executive corruption scandal until Watergate, defining an era of Progressive Era accountability.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1921-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1921
decade: 1920
country:
name: United States
slug: united-states
summaryShort: The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding. It centered on Albert B. Fall, the interior secretary, who accepted bribes from private oil companies to lease government-owned petroleum reserves that had been set aside by Presi
summaryLong: The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding. It centered on Albert B. Fall, the interior secretary, who accepted bribes from private oil companies to lease government-owned petroleum reserves that had been set aside by President William Howard Taft to create the Naval Petroleum Reserves. This was a critical new initiative of the Federal government to ensure that a navy transitioning from coal to oil propulsion would have sufficient stocks of fuel in times of war.
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heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Teapot Dome scandal"
importance: 72
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal"
  title: Teapot Dome scandal
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- protest
metaDescription: The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding. It centered on Albe
wikidataQid: Q3236296
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- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260630101832/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-30
  label: Teapot Dome scandal
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal"
