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