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Richard Achilles Ballinger |
 | | Led by Gifford Pinchot, they demanded an investigation. |
| | A congressional committee exonerated Ballinger, but the questioning of committee counsel Louis D. Brandeis made the Secretary's anticonservationism clear; he resigned in Mar., 1911. |
| | The incident split the Republican party and helped turn the election of 1912 against Taft. |
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