President Taft fired Forestry Director Gifford Pinchot over his open criticism of Interior Secretary Richard A. Ballinger. The dispute was over whether there could be corporate control of Forest assets, such as water. Pinchot opposed that, and rightly so.
Theodore Roosevelt supported Pinchot, Taft Ballinger, which would eventually lead to the split in the GOP which opened the door for Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
Pinchot would later to on to be Governor of Pennsylvania. Ballinger returned to private life after the election of 1912 and resumed the practice of law.
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Tuesday, January 4, 1910. Disaster in Lander.
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