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The winner of the 1923 Kentucky Derby was named after attorney Zevely
By Stan Billingsley April 8, 2008
When I was a young boy my father sometimes took me out to the oilfields North of Casper Wyoming. My father was a drilling contractor and drilled oil wells. One of the oil fields he worked in (there were many others) was called the Naval Reserve at Teapot Dome. This was about 40 miles north of Casper, Wyoming where we lived. The Teapot Dome was a natural structure that looked like a teapot, it had a handle on one side and a spout on the other.
The Teapot Dome Oil Scandal resulted over the election of Warren Harding from Marion, Ohio as President. He brought in an Albert Fall (a Kentuckian) as Sec. of the Interior. They took these naval oil reserves out of control of the Navy and secretly entered into a lease with Harry Sinclair of Sinclair Oil. Sinclair paid off about $1 million dollars of debt of the Republican National Committee, and these leases were the payback.
He also provided the money to bribe numerous other Harding Administration officials.
His chief lawyer was Colonel J.W. Zevely, a New York Lawyer. Zevely handled the contracts, and did the thinking for a number of businessmen and officials embroiled in the scandal, in behalf of Harry Sinclair. Sinclair was one of the few parties in the scandal to actually do jail time. President Harding died before he could be directly linked to the payoffs, but his estate had over $300,000 in bonds which were traced back to Harry Sinclair.
Having seen Teapot Dome as a child, and recalling my father’s mention of this scandal from the 1920’s, I recently bought a book to learn about it. I was delighted to see that Harry Sinclair’s chief lawyer was J.W. “Bill” Zevely.
Sinclair was one of the richest men in America at the time. He owned a race horse which he named ZEV in honor of his lawyer, J.W. Zevely. The horse won the Ky. Derby in 1923.
I have done a search and found out that Zevely was at one time the Superintendent of Yosemite National Park in l898. Apparently his knowledge of the Interior Department served him well when he was helping Sinclair have the Interior Dept. to seize the oil reserves from the Navy and give them to the control of their man, Albert Fall.
Zevely died before the scandal was concluded. He was apparently a very talented lawyer.
Other references to Zevely’s… I even found one was an inmate at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary near the turn of the l9th. century.
Hannah and James Zevely emigrated to Oregon in l852, just four years after gold was found in California.
I believe J.W. Zevely was a distant relative of Florence, Ky. attorney Wilbur Zevely.
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Outline of the Teapot Dome Scandal with reference to Col. J.W. “Bill” Zevely. By the Brookings Institute.
One of the first things Mr. Fall told was that the late J. W. Zevely, ... of Sinclair's lease in the Salt Creek oilfields, adjacent to Teapot Dome. ...
Counsel for Sinclair, led by Daniel Thew Wright, last week journeyed to El Paso, Tex., to take the aged Fall's testimony for the new trial. Atlee Pomerene, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Ohio and since 1924 one of the government's special prosecutors, was there, too, to cross-examine the witness. One of the first things Mr. Fall told was that the late J. W. Zevely, Sinclair's personal attorney and the man for whom he named his famed racehorse "Zev", conducted all the early negotiations for the Teapot lease. Then Sinclair went with Zevely to Fall's office (according to Fall) and protested he would lose money the way the lease was drawn. In the end he signed it "reluctantly
(Note: Zev won the Kentucky Derby in the l923 SEE WIKIKPEDIA:
Zev (1920-1943) was an American thoroughbred horse racing champion.
A brown colt, Zev was sired by The Finn out of the mare Miss Kearney (by Planudes). Bred by the famous horseman John E. Madden, Zev was owned by the Rancocas Stable of Harry F. Sinclair, the founder of Sinclair Oil, who was a central figure in the Teapot Dome scandal under Warren G. Harding, President of the United States. Harding died mysteriously in San Francisco before the scandal hit, but Sinclair went through the worst of it, serving time in prison for selling US oil reserves to private interests for his own personal aggrandizement.
But before all that, Sinclair named the horse Zev in honor of his friend and personal lawyer, Colonel Zevely.
Trained by Sam Hildreth, as a two-year-old Zev won five of his twelve races, finished second on four occasions, and was a leading colt of 1922. The following year he was the dominant three-year-old in America, winning a number of important Grade I stakes races under jockey Earl Sande. Included in his victories was the Lawrence Realization Stakes and the most prestigious race in the United States, the Kentucky Derby, for which David J. Leary was credited as the trainer as he was for the Preakness Stakes which back then was run ahead of the Kentucky Derby. Zev encountered problems in the Preakness and finished a disappointing 12th, but came back to win the Derby next and then Belmont Stakes.
In 1923, Zev was Champion Three-Year-Old Male of the year.
On October 20, 1923, one of the most significant match races in worldwide thoroughbred racing took place at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York. A crowd estimated at close to 50,000 watched Zev easily defeat Epsom Derby winner Papyrus by five lengths. Zev's victory marked the first time a Kentucky Derby winner defeated an English Derby winner. His performance in 1923 earned Zev the title: Horse of the Year.
After successfully campaigning as a four-year-old, Zev retired as racing's all-time leading money earner. At stud, he proved less successful than he had on the track, at best siring two minor stakes winners.
In 1983, Zev was inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. In the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, he was accorded 56th in the ranking.
Start good and slow. Won easily; second and third driving. ZEV broke forwardly and, showing high speed, raced into a good lead at once and, withstanding a drive through the stretch, gamely held MARTINGALE safe at the end. MARTINGALE was in closest pursuit nearly throughout and held his position well in the stretch drive. VIGIL began slowly and had to race wide, but closed a big gap and may have been best. *NASSAU raced well and saved ground on last turn. CHITTAGONG ran a fine race ENCHANTMENT tired. PRINCE K. quit. CHERRY PIE had little chance from start. Scratched - Anna M. Humphrey, Chickvale, Everhart. (*Foreign Bred)
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The showing as to what transpired concerning the Teapot Dome is meager. ... Zevely testified that he was not sure whether the subject was mentioned in his ...
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Zevely testified about an additional $25000 loan from Sinclair to Fall. after the Teapot Dome Lease. 6) Jan. 25, 1924. Senate ordered an investigation on ...
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J. W. Zevely, acting superintendent of Yosemite in 1898, was among those who later ..... See Burl Noggle, Teapot Dome: Oil and Politics in the 1920's (Baton ...
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ZEVELY WAS MANAGER OF YOSEMITE PARK IN CALIFORNIAIN 1898:
Rodgers was succeeded by Interior Department Special Inspector J. W. Zevely in 1898. (The military had been temporarily recalled to participate in the Spanish-American War.) Zevely rejected his predecessors' recommendations for the purchase of the Tioga Road, stating that the owners' rights had been extinguished by abandonment, and that in his opinion, the road already belonged to the Government. He called for an appropriation for its repair.31
Zevely was supported by Commissioners Marsden Manson and W. L. Ashe of the California Department of Highways, who noted that the state was endeavoring to construct an eastward extension of the Tioga Road into Mono County. At this point, the state had studied eastward routes down Lee Vining Creek, down Lee Vining and Mill creeks, or down Bloody Canyon. The Lee Vining Creek route was recommended by the surveyors, who thought the road could be built for about $30,000. Commissioner Manson walked the entire route before giving his assent. To open up a complete Trans-Sierran route, Manson and Ashe urged that the federal government take control of the Tioga Road within the park, and initiate surveys and examinations for its reconstruction along easier grades and alignments.32
On 25 September of the same year, Zevely was replaced as Acting Superintendent by Capt. Joseph E. Caine of the Utah Volunteers, U.S. Cavalry. Caine's report also recommended that the government take control of the toll roads in the park, but only after sufficient funds were appropriated for their maintenance. He suggested that the cost of repairing the Tioga Road would probably run closer to $15,000, but warned:
J. W. Zevely, "Report of the Acting Superintendents of the Yosemite National Park" in Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1898. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899),
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Parks and the Forest Reserves in California.
By June 25, 1898, Special Inspector J. W. Zevely of the General Land Office had hired eleven men from the Yosemite region and these men were assigned to two special agents. Special Agent A. W. Buick was in charge of five men: The men were, Archie C. Leonard, George R. Byde, Henry A. Skelton, Charles A. Leidig, Arthur L. Thurman, and they took over the northern part of Yosemite. Special Agent Cullom was given six men: George G. MacKenzie, Thomas S. Carter, David Lackton, Darwin S. Lewis, Joel J. Westfall, Joseph R. Borden, and this group were assigned to the southern part of Yosemite.
Both groups were well armed and mounted and they were constantly in the field expelling sheep trespass, fighting forest fires and arresting all those with fire arms. During the period from June 25th until September lst they reported they had expelled from the Park 189,000 head of sheep, 350 head of horses, 1,000 head of cattle, and confiscated 27 fire arms. These men made up the first civilian protection force for the Yosemite National Park.
The U.S. Troops returned to the Park on August 25, 1898, and the Forest Agents were relieved of their duties.
Other Zevelys:
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UNTERRIFIED DEMOCRAT
Colonel Lebbeus Zevely founded The Unterrified Democrat in Linn, Missouri, in 1866, and the newspaper is still published under that peculiar name. Ironically, it now supports the Republicans.
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Levenworth Federal Penitentiary Inmate:
Inmate Case Files, U.S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, 1895 - 1931 (Record Group 129)
Emigrants to Oregon in 1852
compiled by Stephenie Flora ZEVELY, Hannah B. ( - ): m'd , to ZEVELY, James Henry ( - ):
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