Background
Albert Bacon Fall was born at Frankfort, Kentucky, United States on November 26, 1861 to William R. and Edmonia Taylor Fall.
Albert Bacon Fall was born at Frankfort, Kentucky, United States on November 26, 1861 to William R. and Edmonia Taylor Fall.
Fall was educated in the country schools and by himself.
Fall taught school and read law from 1879 to 1881, and in the latter year became a lawyer himself. From 1889 he was a practicing lawyer in New Mexico, where he became interested in finance.
He was elected to the United States Senate from New Mexico in 1912 and was reelected in 1918. He was secretary of the interior under President Warren Gamaliel Harding from March 1921 until March 1923, when he resigned. Investigation showed that he had been involved with Edward Laurence Doheny and Harry Ford Sinclair in the leasing of the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome oil reserves.
In 1929 he was found guilty of accepting a bribe of $100, 000 in connection with Elk Hills, and was imprisoned from 1931 to 1932.