Political corruption in America : an encyclopedia of scandals, power, and greed

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Adams, Llewelyn Sherman (1899-1986)

Addonizio, Hugh Joseph (1914-1981)

Agnew, Spiro Theodore (1918-1996)

Ames, Adelbert (1835-1933)

Ames, Oakes (1804-1873)

Archbald, Robert Wodrow (1848-1926)

Archer, Stevenson (1827-1898)

Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652 (1990)

Axtell, Samuel Beach (1819-1881)

Baker, Robert Gene (1928-3M)

Barry v. United States ex rel. Cunningham, 279 U.S. 597 (1929)

Barstow, William Augustus (1813-1865)

Belknap, William Worth (1829-1890)

Biaggi, Mario (1917-3M)

Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore (1877-1947)

Bingham, Hiram (1875-1956)

Blaine, James Gillespie (1830-1893)

Blanton, Leonard Ray (1930-1996)

Brehm, Walter Ellsworth (1892-1971)

Brewster, Daniel Baugh (1923-3M)

Brooks, James (1810-1873)

Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976)

Bullock, Rufus Brown (1834-1907)

Bundling

Burton, Joseph Ralph (1852-1923)

Burton v. United States, 202 U.S. 344 (1906)

Bustamante, Albert Garza (1935-3M)

Butler, David C. (1829-1891)

Butler, Roderick Randum (1827-1902)

Caldwell, Alexander (1830-1917)

Campaign Finance Scandal

Catron, Thomas Benton (1840-1921)

Censure

Chinagate

Choate, Joseph Hodges (1832-1917)

Cianci, Vincent A, Jr. (1941-3M)

Claiborne v. United States, 465 U.S. 1305 (1984)

Clark, William Andrews (1839-1925)

Clayton, Powell (1833-1914)

Clinton, William Jefferson (1946-3M)

Code of Official Conduct

Coelho, Anthony Lee (1942-3M)

Colfax, Schuyler, Jr. (1823-1885)

Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee v. Federal Election Commission, 116 S. Ct. 2309, 518 U.S. 604 (1996)

Colvin, Harvey Doolittle (1815-1892)

Coman, Thomas (1836-1909)

Common Cause

Congressional Ethics Code

Connally, John Bowden, Jr. (1917-1993)

Connelly, Matthew J. (1907-1976)

Contempt of Congress

Corrupt Practices Act, 36 Stat. 822 (1910)

Coughlin, John Joseph (1860-1938)

Covode, John (1808-1871)

Cox, Charles Christopher (1952-3M)

Cox Report

Cranston, Alan MacGregor (1914-2000)

Cr, dit Mobilier Scandal

Croker, Richard (1841-1922)

Curley, James Michael (1874-1958)

Curtis, George William (1824-1892)

Daugherty, Harry Micajah (1860-1941)

Democracy: An American Novel

Deweese, John Thomas (1835-1906)

Dewey, Thomas Edmund (1902-1971)

Diggs, Charles Coleman, Jr. (1922-1998)

Dodd, Thomas Joseph (1907-1971)

Dorsey, Stephen Wallace (1842-1916)

Duer, William (1747-1799)

Durenberger, David Ferdinand (1934-3M)

Dwyer, R. Budd (1939-1987)

Eaton, Dorman Bridgman (1823-1899)

Edwards, Edwin Washington (1927-3M)

Edwards, Francis Smith (1817-1899)

Eilberg, Joshua (1921-3M)

English, George Washington (1868-1941)

Espy, Michael Albert (1953-3M)

Ethics in Government Act, Public Law 95-521 (1978)

Ethics Reform Act of 1989, Public Law 101-194 (1989)

Expulsion F Fall, Albert Bacon (1861-1944)

Fauntroy, Walter Edward (1933-3M)

Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925, 43 Stat. 1070; 2 U.S.C. 241 (1925)

Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, Public Law 92-225, 86 Stat. 3, 2 USC 431 et seq. (1971)

Federal Election Commission (FEC)

Federal Election Commission v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc., 479 U.S. 238 (1986)

Federal Election Commission v. National Conservative Political Action Committee, 470 U.S. 480 (1985)

Federal Election Commission v. National Right to Work Committee, 459 U.S. 197 (1982)

Ferguson, James Edward (1871-1944)

"Filegate"

Flood, Daniel John (1903-1994)

Florida Right to Life, Inc. v. Lamar, 233 F. 3rd 1288 (11th Cir. 2001)

Fortas, Abraham (1919-1982)

Foulke, William Dudley (1848-1935)

Garcia, Robert (1933-3M)

Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881)

Gaynor, William Jay (1848-1913)

Gilbert, William Augustus (1815-1875)

Goebel, William (1856-1900)

Gore, Albert Arnold, Jr. (1948-3M)

Grover, La Fayette (1823-1911)

Hague, Frank (1876-1956)

Hall, Abraham Oakey (1826-1898)

Hanna, Richard Thomas (1914-2001)

Hastings, Alcee Lamar (1936-3M)

Hatch Act, 53 Stat. 1147 (1939)

Hays, Wayne Levere (1911-1989)

Hayt, Ezra Ayres (1823-1902)

Helstoski, Henry (1925-1999)

Henderson, John Brooks (1826-1913)

Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. 1951 (1946)

Hoeppel, John Henry (1881-1976)

Hoffman, Harold Giles (1896-1954)

Hoffman, John Thompson (1828-1888)

Holden, William Woods (1818-1892)

Honoraria

Hopkinson, Francis (1737-1791)

House of Representatives Banking Scandal

House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

House of Representatives Post Office Scandal

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scandal

Hubbard, Carroll, Jr. (1937-3M)

Hubbell, Levi (1808-1876)

Hunt, (Harold) Guy (1933-3M)

Impeachment

Independent Counsel Statute, 28 U.S.C. 1826

Independent Expenditures

Influence Peddling

Ingersoll, Robert Green (1833-1899)

Iran-Contra Affair

Jackson, Edward Franklin (1873-1954)

Jenckes, Thomas Allen (1818-1875)

Jerome, William Travers (1859-1934)

Johnson, Thomas Francis (1909-1988)

Keating Five, The Kellogg, William Pitt (1830-1918)

Kerner, Otto, Jr. (1908-1976)

Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168 (1881)

Kim, Jay C. (1939-3M)

King, Cecil Rhodes (1898-1974)

King, William Smith (1828-1900)

"Koreagate"

Lance, Thomas Bertram "Bert" (1931-3M)

Langer, William (1886-1959)

Leche, Richard Webster (1898-1965)

Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, Public Law 104-65, 109 Stat. 691, 2 U.S.C. 1601 (1995)

Lorimer, William (1861-1934)

Louderback, Harold (1881-1941)

Lyon, Caleb (1822-1875)

Mandel, Marvin (1920-3M)

Manton, Martin Thomas (1880-1946)

Marshall, Humphrey (1760-1841)

Matteson, Orsamus Benajah (1805-1889)

Mavroules, Nicholas James (1929-3M)

May, Andrew Jackson (1875-1959)

McCray, Warren Terry (1865-1938)

McDade, Joseph Michael (1931-3M)

McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 (1927)

Mecham, Evan (1924-3M)

Miller, Thomas Woodnutt (1886-1973)

Mills, Wilbur Daigh (1909-1992)

Mitchell, John Hipple (1835-1905)

Mitchell, John Newton (1913-1988)

Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654 (1988)

Mugwumps

Myers, Michael Joseph (1943-3M)

Newberry v. United States, 256 U.S. 232 (1921)

Nixon, Richard Milhous (1913-1994)

Nixon v. Missouri PAC, 528 U.S. 377 (2000)

Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224 (1993)

Obstruction of Justice

Ordway, Nehemiah George (1828-1907)

Pardongate

Patterson, James Willis (1823-1893)

Peck, James Hawkins (1790?-1836)

Pendergast, Thomas Joseph (1872-1945)

Pendleton, George Hunt (1825-1889)

Pendleton Civil Service Act, 22 Stat. 403 (1883)

Perkins, Carl Christopher (1954-3M)

Pickering, John (1737?-1805)

Political Cartoons and Corruption

Political Corruption as Portrayed in Literature

Political Corruption as Portrayed in Films and on Television

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. (1908-1972)

Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969)

Publicity Act of 1910, 36 Stat. 822 (1910)

Recall

Reed, Harrison (1813-1899)

Reeder, Andrew Horatio (1807-1864)

Reynolds, Melvin Jay (1952-3M)

Richmond, Frederick William (1923-3M)

Ritter, Halsted Lockwood (1868-1951)

Roach, William Nathaniel (1840-1902)

Roberts, Owen Josephus (1875-1955)

Robinson, Charles (1818-1894)

Ross, Robert Tripp (1903-1981)

Rostenkowski, Daniel David (1928-3M)

Schenck, Robert Cumming (1809-1890)

Schmitz, Eugene Edward (1864-1928)

Schumaker, John Godfrey (1826-1905)

Seabury, Samuel (1873?-1958)

Senate Finance Committee Hearings (Thompson Committee)

Senate Select Committee on Ethics

Shepherd, Alexander Robey (1835-1902)

Shuster, Elmer Greinert "Bud" (1932-3M)

Sikes, Robert Lee Fulton (1906-1994)

Simmons, James Fowler (1795-1864)

Small, Lennington "Len" (1862-1936)

Smith, Frank Leslie (1867-1950)

Smith, John (1735?-1824)

Speech or Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution

Starr, Kenneth Winston (1946-3M)

Star Route Frauds

Sullivan, Timothy Daniel (1863-1913)

Sulzer, William (1863-1941)

Swartwout-Hoyt Scandal

Swayne, Charles Henry (1842-1907)

Symington, John Fife, III (1945-3M)

T Talmadge, Herman Eugene (1913-2002)

Tammany Hall

Tate, James Williams (1831-?)

Teapot Dome Scandal

Thomas, John Parnell (1895-1970)

Thompson, Fred Dalton (1942-3M)

Thompson, William Hale (1869-1944)

Tillman Act of 1907, 34 Stat. 864 (1907)

Torricelli, Robert Guy (1951-3M)

Traficant, James A., Jr. (1941-3M)

Tucker, James Guy, Jr. (1943-3M)

Tweed, William Magear (1823-1878)

Tyner, James Noble (1826-1904)

United States v. Bramblett, 348 U.S. 503 (1955)

United States v. Brewster, 408 U.S. 501 (1972)

United States v. Gillock, 445 U.S. 360 (1980)

United States v. Helstoski, 442 U.S. 477 (1979)

United States v. Johnson, 383 U.S. 169 (1966)

United States v. Shirey, 359 U.S. 255 (1959)

United States v. Worrall, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 384 (1798)

Vare, William Scott (1867-1934)

Vermont Right to Life Committee v. Sorrell, 19 F. Supp. 2d 204 (1998), 216 F. 3d 264 (2000)

Walker, James John (1881-1946)

Walsh, Thomas James (1859-1933)

Walton, John Callaway (1881-1949)

Warmoth, Henry Clay (1842-1931)

Watergate

Welch, William Wickham (1818-1892)

Whiskey Ring Scandal

Whitewater

Whittemore, Benjamin Franklin (1824-1894)

Willett, William Forte, Jr. (1869-1938)

Williams, Harrison Arlington, Jr. (1919-2001)

Williams, John James (1904-1988)

Williamson, John Newton (1855-1943)

Wilson, Charles Herbert (1917-1984)

Wright, James Claude, Jr. (1922-3M)

Zenger, John Peter (1697-1746)