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Warren G. Harding was born
Warren G. Harding was Born on a farm, Harding was the eldest of eight children of George Tryon Harding and Phoebe Dickerson Harding; his ancestry combined English, Scottish, and Dutch stock. His father later left farming to become a physician -
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Where he went to school and what year
Following a mediocre education at local schools in Ohio and three years at Ohio Central College, Harding tried his hand at several vocations until in 1884 he bought a struggling weekly newspaper in Marion, Ohio, to which he devoted himself. -
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early years
Seven years later he married Florence King DE Wolfe (Florence Harding), and she proved instrumental in transforming The Marion Star into a financially successful daily paper. Soon Harding, a man of little discernible intellect or imagination, found himself invited to join leading corporate boards and fraternal organizations. As he began to associate with the state’s movers and shakers, he was drawn into Republican Party politics. -
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Warren G. Harding Political career
Harding was elected a state senator (1899–1902) and lieutenant governor (1903–04),On most issues he allied himself with the conservative (“Old Guard”) He achieved national visibility when he was chosen to nominate William Howard Taft at the 1912 Republican Convention, and in his next campaign he was elected U.S. senator (1915–21). -
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Warren G. Harding political career
After eight years of the administrations of President Woodrow Wilson, during which Americans had been asked to sacrifice greatly to reform the United States and to aid the Allied cause in World War I, Harding’s undemanding call for a return to normalcy was precisely what war-weary, disillusioned voters wanted to hear. Harding won the election by the largest landslide to date, capturing some 60 percent of the popular vote. -
old life letter
On the question of the logical content of Dr. Harding’s harangue of last Friday I do not presume to have views. The matter has been debated at great length by the editorial writers of the Republic, all of them experts in logic; moreover, I confess to being prejudiced. When a man arises publicly to argue that the United States entered the late war because of a “concern for preserved civilization. -
Presidency
President-elect Harding appointed to his cabinet a mixture of outstanding leaders and unscrupulous politicians waiting for an opportunity to line their pockets. In the first category were Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, and in the second were Attorney General Harry Daugherty and Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. Harding was a notoriously poor judge of character who expected his appointees to repay his trust with integrity. -
Scandals
Harding was never personally implicated in the scandals, but he was aware of the actions Forbes, smith, and the Ohio Gang and failed to bring their corruption to light. By the mid 1920s the public began to regard Harding as a man who simply did not measure up to the responsibilities of his high office. -
Warren G. Harding
An Ohio Republican was the 29th president of the United States (1921-1923). Through his term in office was fraught with scandal, including Teapot Dome, Harding embraced Technology and was sensitive to the plights of minorities and woman. Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate -
Hardings timeline
1865, Harding is born in Corsica Ohio, 1884, Harding buys the marring star newspaper, 1898, Harding becomes an Ohio state senator, 1903, Harding becomes lieutenant governor of Ohio, 1914, Harding is elected to the U.S. senate, 1920, Harding is elected president, 1921-22, the United states and other countries agree to limit warships, 1923, Harding's death makes vice president Galvin Coolidge president.