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In 1920 Warren G. Harding easily won election as the 29th president of the United States . He was a popular leader, but he died before the end of his term. Soon after his death the public found out that politicians close to Harding had made illegal business deals. This changed many people’s views about him.
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Childhood and education
Warren Harding was born on November 2, 1865, in Blooming Grove, Ohio. Nicknamed "Winnie" as a small child, he was the eldest of eight children born to George Tryon Harding (1843–1928; usually known as Tryon) and Phoebe Elizabeth (née Dickerson) Harding (1843–1910). Phoebe was a state-licensed midwife. Tryon farmed and taught school near Mount Gilead. Through apprenticeship and a year of medical school, Tryon became a doctor and started a small practice. Some of Harding's maternal ancestors we...
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In Harding's youth, the majority of the population still lived on farms and in small towns. He spent much of his life in Marion, a small city in rural central Ohio, and became closely associated with it. When Harding rose to high office, he spoke of his love of Marion and its way of life, telling of the many young Marionites who had left and enjoyed success elsewhere, while suggesting that the man, once the "pride of the school", who had remained behind and become a janitor, was "the happiest...
Marriage
Harding first came to know Florence Klingas the daughter of Amos Kling, a local banker and developer. He was a man accustomed to getting his way, but Harding attacked him relentlessly in the paper. Amos involved Florence in all his affairs, taking her to work from the time she could walk. As hard-headed as her father, Florence Kling came into conflict with her father after returning from music college. She eloped with Pete deWolfe, and returned to Marion without deWolfe, but with an infant, M...
State senator
Harding tried again for elective office. Though he was a longtime admirer of Foraker, who by then had been elected to the U.S. Senate, he also maintained good relations with the party faction led by the state's other senator, Mark Hanna, who was McKinley's political manager, and chairman of the Republican National Committee(RNC). With the support of Foraker and Hanna, Harding ran for state Senate in 1899, gained the Republican nomination, and was easily elected to a two-year term. Harding beg...
Ohio state leader
In early 1903, Harding announced he would run for Governor of Ohio, prompted by the withdrawal of the leading candidate, Congressman Charles W. F. Dick. Hanna and George Cox felt that Harding was not electable due to his work with Foraker—as the Progressive Era commenced, the public was starting to take a dimmer view of the trading of political favors and of bosses such as Cox. Accordingly, they persuaded Cleveland banker Myron T. Herrick, a friend of McKinley's, to run. Herrick was also bett...
Primary campaign
Most Progressives had rejoined the Republican Party, and their former leader, Theodore Roosevelt, was the overwhelming favorite for the 1920 Republican presidential nomination. When Roosevelt suddenly died on January 6, 1919, a number of candidates quickly emerged. These included General Leonard Wood, Illinois Governor Frank Lowden, California Senator Hiram Johnson, and a host of underdogs such as Herbert Hoover (renowned for his World War I relief work), Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidg...
Convention
The 1920 Republican National Convention opened at the Chicago Coliseum on June 8, 1920, assembling delegates who were bitterly divided, most recently over the results of a Senate investigation into campaign spending, which had just been released. The report found that Wood had spent $1.8 million (equivalent to $24.35 million in 2021), supporting Johnson's claims that Wood was trying to buy the presidency. Some of the $600,000 that Lowden had spent wound up in the pockets of two convention del...
General election campaign
The Harding/Coolidge ticket was quickly backed by Republican newspapers, but those of other viewpoints expressed disappointment. The New York World found Harding the least-qualified candidate since James Buchanan, viewing the Ohio senator as a "weak and mediocre" man who "never had an original idea". The Hearst newspapers called Harding "the flag-bearer of a new Senatorial autocracy". The New York Timesdescribed the Republican presidential candidate as "a very respectable Ohio politician of t...
Inauguration and appointments
Harding was sworn in on March 4, 1921, in the presence of his wife and father. Harding preferred a low-key inauguration, without the customary parade, leaving only the swearing-in ceremony and a brief reception at the White House. In his inaugural address he declared, "Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much from the government and at the same time do too little for it." After the election, Harding had announced he was going on vacation, and that no decisions about appointments woul...
Political setbacks and western tour
Entering the 1922 midterm congressional election campaign, Harding and the Republicans had followed through on many of their campaign promises. But some of the fulfilled pledges, like cutting taxes for the well-off, did not appeal to the electorate. The economy had not returned to normalcy, with unemployment at 11 percent, and organized labor angry over the outcome of the strikes. From 303 Republicans elected to the House in 1920, the new 68th Congress saw that party fall to a 221–213 majorit...
Harding went to bed early the evening of July 27, 1923, a few hours after giving the speech at the University of Washington. Later that night, he called for his physician Charles E. Sawyer, complaining of pain in the upper abdomen. Sawyer thought that it was a recurrence of stomach upset, but Dr. Joel T. Boone suspected a heart problem. The press w...
Upon his death, Harding was deeply mourned—not only in the United States, but around the world. He was called a man of peace in many European newspapers. American journalists praised him lavishly, with some describing him as having given his life for his country. His associates were stunned by his demise. Daugherty wrote, "I can hardly write about ...
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Warren G. Harding was the 29th President of the United States. Served as President: 1921-1923. Vice President: Calvin Coolidge. Party: Republican. Age at inauguration: 55. Born: November 2, 1865 in Corsica (Blooming Grove), Ohio. Died: August 2, 1923 during his presidency while visiting San Francisco, California. Married: Florence Kling Harding.
Aug 31, 2020 · Harding's Term. March 4, 1921: President Warren Harding is inaugurated and was the last President to be from Ohio. April 20, 1921: The Senate ratified the Thompson-Urrutia Treaty, which paid Colombia $25 million for the loss of Panama in 1903 under President Theodore Roosevelt. May 19, 1921: Harding signs the Emergency Quota Act.
Warren G. Harding was born in 1865 on a farm in the small community of Corsica, Ohio. His parents were George and Phoebe Harding, a farmer and midwife. Warren’s father later worked as a doctor and then the co-owner of a newspaper. The oldest of six children (four sisters and a brother), Warren enjoyed music and playing outdoors.
Fun Facts. Warren G. Harding was born on November 2, 1865 in Caledonia, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Central College and became a newspaper man. He and two friends bought a failing newspaper and revived it. Harding married Florence Kling DeWolfe, daughter of the town banker. They had no children.
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