Patronage, Corruption, and the Republican Party in the U.S. South: The Senate Hearings of the Late-1920s

• In Event: Historical Legislative and Partisan Politics

Brief Overview

We use extensive archival records from Senate Hearings into the sale of postmasterships (and other offices) by local GOP leaders in the American South in the late 1920s to form a structural assessment of the financials underlying this process.

Authors

• Boris Heersink, Fordham University

• Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Southern California