Warren Gamaliel Harding
Twenty-Ninth U.S. President
March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923*
|
VICE
PRESIDENT
Calvin Coolidge |
FIRST
LADY
Florence Harding |
 |
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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