May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
IN THE WAKE OF THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL COOLIDGE, CALVIN. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to NY lawyer Noah C. Rodgers, expressing pleasure at his high regard of the new Attorney General. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery, with integral blank; horizontal fold. (TFC) Washington, 12 April 1924
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"It is always a pleasure to have the support of a man like yourself in the choice of an important public official, and I am very glad to know that you think so highly of the new Attorney General. I believe that he will uphold the best traditions of the Department."
At the end of March, 1928, Coolidge dismissed his Attorney General, Harry M. Daugherty, because of his alleged--and never substantiated--involvement in the "Teapot Dome" scandal. The Teapot Dome Oil Field in WY was one of the government-owned fields leased by Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall to private companies in 1922. It was discovered that Fall was accepting bribes in exchange for arranging the lucrative leases, and he was sentenced to prison. In 1924, the dean of Columbia Law School, Harlan F. Stone, replaced Daugherry, becoming an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1925, and Chief Justice in 1941.