Colleagues moved to pursue impeachment proceedings against Missouri Sen. Joseph Falzone on this date amid allegations he had taken a bribe. They went so far as to set a trial date, but the senator ended up resigning days later, according to a Missouri Senate history. This is the Missouri Senate Chamber in the Missouri Capitol at Jefferson City.
Photo credit: Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. The Senate chamber of the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City, the capital city of the midwest-U.S. state. -03-19. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2021756077/.
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