American Scoudrel B. Gratz Brown

About this episode

The episode discusses the tumultuous political career of B. Gratz Brown, highlighting his failures and the corruption of the era.

B. Gratz Brown — ex-senator, sitting governor, Vice-Presidential nominee of two parties at once — was handed the stage built to topple Grant's corruption and showed up drunk. He fainted at a New York rally, forgot his own policies, and buttered a watermelon at a campaign picnic. The reform ticket died. The Whiskey Ring kept pumping. Jump to the AD-FREE Safe House Edition Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-historian--2909311/support . You can pay more if you want to, but rent at the Safe House is still just a buck a week, and you can get access to over 400 ad-free episodes from the dusty vault, Safe House Exclusives, direct access to the Boss, and whatever personal services you require. We invite you to our other PULPULAR MEDIA podcasts: If disaster is more your jam, check out CATASTROPHIC CALAMITIES , telling the stories of famous and forgotten tragedies of the 19th and 20th centuries. What could go wrong? Everything! For brand-new tales in the old clothes from the golden era of popular literature, give your ears a treat with PULP MAGAZINES with two new stories every week.

People in this episode

Host: Richard O Jones

Topics covered

• politics
• corruption
• historical figures
• campaigns
• American history

Keywords

• B. Gratz Brown
• politics
• corruption
• Whiskey Ring
• campaign failures

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