- Alabama Attorney General Robert Flowers (D) In 1969, Flowers was sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiring to extort payments from companies seeking licenses to do business in Alabama while he was in office. He was paroled in 1973 after serving 16 months in a federal prison and was pardoned by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. Mr. Flowers maintained that he had been set up on the extortion charges because of his stance on segregation in defiance of Governor George Wallace.
- Arkansas Attorney General Bruce Bennett (D) charged with 28 counts of wire fraud and securities violations relating to a failed savings and loan. His poor health prevented the case from going to trial. (1969)
- Illinois Auditor of Public Accounts Orville Hodge(R) pleaded guilty to bank fraud, embezzlement and forgery and was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1956.
- Massachusetts: 1964 special grand jury investigation of corruption indicted:
- Speaker of the House John F. Thompson (D) was indicted on 58 counts of conspiracy and requesting and accepting bribes. He died before the case was resolved. (1964)
- Commissioner of Administration and FinanceCharles Gibbons (R) was indicted on 23 counts of accepting bribes. (1964)
- Massachusetts: Lowell, Massachusetts MayorGeorge T. Ashe was convicted by a jury on charges of conspiracy involving city purchases (1942). He was sentenced to a year in prison.
- Texas The Veterans' Land Board scandal in (1954)
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