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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New Mexico FALL, Albert Bacon(1861—1944)Senate Years of Service: 1912-1921Party: Republican FALL, Albert Bacon, a Senator from New Mexico; born in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., November 26, 1861; attended the country schools; taught school; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice at Las Cruces, N.Mex.; made a specialty of Mexican law; became interested in mines, lumber, land, railroads, farming, and stock raising; member, Territorial house of representatives 1891-1892; appointed judge of the third judicial district 1893; associate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico 1893; Territorial attorney general in 1897 and again in 1907; member of the Territorial council 1897; served as captain of Company H in the First Territorial Infantry during the Spanish-American War; upon the admission of New Mexico as a State into the Union was elected in 1912 as a Republican to the United States Senate for the term ending March 3, 1913; reelected in June 1912, but as the Governor did not sign the credentials, was again elected in January 1913; reelected in 1918, and served from March 27, 1912, until March 4, 1921, when he resigned to accept a Cabinet position; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Geological Survey (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands (Sixty-sixth Congress); appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Warren Harding and served from March 1921, until March 1923, when he resigned; resumed his former business pursuits in Three Rivers, N.Mex.; died in El Paso, Tex., November 30, 1944; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Gilderhus, Mark T. “Senator Albert B. Fall and the ‘Plot Against Mexico’.” New Mexico Historical Review 48 (October 1973): 299-311. Joyce, Davis D. “Before Teapot Dome: Senator Albert B. Fall and Conservation.” Red River Valley Historical Review 4 (Fall 1979): 44-51. ___. “Senator Albert B. Fall and the Treaty of Versailles.” Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 53 (1973): 136-44. ___. “Senator Albert B. Fall and U.S. Relations with Mexico, 1912-1921.” International Review of History and Political Science 6 (August 1969): 53-76. Nash, Gerald D. “Albert B. Fall and United States Oil Policy in 1921: A Document.” New Mexico Historical Review 67 (April 1992): 157-66. Owen, Gordon R. The Two Alberts: Fountain and Fall . Las Cruces, N.Mex.: Yucca Tree Press, 1996. Stratton, David H. “Albert B. Fall and the Teapot Dome Affair.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1955. ___. “New Mexico Machiavellian?: The Story of Albert B. Fall.” Montana 7 (October 1957): 2-14. ___. “Two Western Senators and Teapot Dome: Thomas J. Walsh and Albert B. Fall.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 65 (April 1974): 57-65. ___, ed. The Memoirs of Albert B. Fall . Southwestern Studies, vol. 4, monograph no. 15. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1966. Trow, Clifford Wayne. “Senator Albert B. Fall and Mexican Affairs: 1912-1921.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1966. ___. “ ‘Tired of Waiting’: Senator Albert B. Fall’s Alternative to Woodrow Wilson’s Mexican Policies, 1920-1921.” New Mexico Historical Review 57 (April 1982): 159-82. Weisner, Herman B. The Politics of Justice: A.B. Fall and the Teapot Dome Scandal: A New Perspective . Albuquerque, NM: Creative Designs, 1988. Woodward, Earl F. “Hon. Albert B. Fall of New Mexico: The Frontier’s Fallen Star of Teapot Dome.” Montana 23 (January 1973): 14-23. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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