March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923*
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VICE
PRESIDENT
Calvin Coolidge |
FIRST
LADY
Florence Harding |
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BORN: November 2, 1865
Bloomington Grove, Ohio |
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CHILDREN: One illegitimate child
from an affair with Nan Britton in 1919.
PROFESSION: School Teacher, Newspaper Publisher
Warren Harding authored two books just
prior to becoming President, Rededicating America (1920) and Our Common Country
(1921).
POLITICAL PARTY: Republican
HOME STATE: Ohio
POLITICAL OFFICES: Lieutenant Governor (OH), US Senator
DIED: (August 2, 1923Age -55 )
*Died
in office while on a trip to the Western States. He suffered a heart attack and died
while in San Francisco, CA with his Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover.
BURIED: Marion, Ohio |
"I am
not worried about my enemies. It is my friends that are keeping me awake at
nights." President Harding in
response to rumors of corruption in the ranks of his administration. These rumors
proved to be true and after his death several officials were prosecuted, causing his
biographer to write:
"Few deaths are unmingled tragedies.
Harding's was not. He died in time." Samuel Hopkins Adams |
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