Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-1923)

Warren Gamaliel Harding

29th President of the United States
(March 4, 1921 to August 2, 1923)

Nickname: None listed.

Born: November 2, 1865, near Corsica (now Blooming Grove), Ohio
Died: August 2, 1923, in San Francisco, California

Father: George Tyron Harding

Mother: Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson Harding
Married: Florence Kling De Wolfe (1860-1924), on July 8, 1891
Children: Elizabeth Ann Christian (illegitimate child by Nan Britton) (1919- )

Religion: Baptist
Education: Graduated from Ohio Central College (1882)
Occupation: Editor-Publisher
Political Party: Republican
Other Government Positions:

• Member of Ohio State Senate, 1900-04
• Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio, 1904-06
• United States Senator, 1915-21

Presidential Salary: $75,000/year

Vice President: Calvin Coolidge (1921-23)

Cabinet:

Secretary of State

Charles Evans Hughes (1921-23)

Secretary of the Treasury

Andrew W. Mellon (1921-23)

Secretary of War

John W. Weeks (1921-23)

Attorney General

Harry M. Daugherty (1921-23)

Postmaster General

William H. Hays (1921-22)

Hubert Work (1922-23)

Harry S. New (1923)

Secretary of the Navy

Edwin Denby (1921-23)

Secretary of the Interior

Albert B. Fall (1921-23)

Hubert Work (1923)

Secretary of Agriculture

Henry C. Wallace (1921-23)

Secretary of Commerce

Herbert C. Hoover (1921-23)

Secretary of Labor

James J. Davis (1921-23)

Notable Events:

• 1921
  • Peace between Germany and Austria declared.
• 1922
  • Beginning of the Teapot Dome Scandal
  • Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act

Points of Interest:

• He was the first newspaper publisher to be elected president.
• Both of Harding's parents were doctors.
• He suffered nervous breakdowns at the age of 24 and had to spend some time in a sanitarium.
• One of his sisters was a Washington, D.C. policewoman.
• Harding was the first president to ride to his inauguration in an automobile.
• He was the first president to own a radio and the first to speak over the radio airwaves.
• Harding was the first president to visit Canada and Alaska.
• While president, Harding played golf, poker twice a week, followed baseball and boxing, and sneaked off to burlesque shows. His advisors were known as the "Poker Cabinet" because they all played poker together.
• Harding wore size fourteen shoes. He had the largest feet of the presidents.
• Harding was the first president to be survived by his father.

Biographies:

• Wikipedia