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Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular presidents at the time of his death. After that, a number of scandals were exposed that greatly damaged his reputation.
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business · President of the United States from 1921 to 1923 · politician · newspaper editor · statesperson · businessperson · also Warren G. Harding, Warren Harding, Warren Gamaliel Harding, President Harding, W. G. Harding, W. Harding
Born 2 November 1865 · Died 2 August 1923 · Q35286
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2026· 14 entries
Yahoo Sports: Jackson vs. Warren Harding game updates
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Canton Repository: Landyn Belknap scores a Perry rushing touchdown against Warren Harding
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Canton Repository: OHSAA football scores, Perry vs. Warren Harding. Raiders roll to road win
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Canton Repository: Jaron Edmonds kicks 23-yard field goal late in half for Warren Harding
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Canton Repository: Warren Harding's Matt Richardson catches long TD pass from James Jones
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“s possible involvement, Harding refused to answer. Teapot Dome The scandal which has likely done the greatest damage to Harding”
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“unless our democracy is a lie, you must stand for that equality.”
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“The delegates would not listen to remaining in Chicago over Sunday ... the President makers did not have a clean shirt. On such things, Rollo, turns the destiny of nations.”
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East Wing Magazine: Throwback: Was Warren Harding's Death 'Written in the Stars?' 100 Years Later, a Look at the Prediction That Haunted a First Lady and Her Legacy
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dispatch.com: This Week In History: President Warren G. Harding, of Marion, dies Aug. 2, 1923
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aol.com: This Week In History: President Warren G. Harding dies Aug. 2, 1923
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2025· 1 entry
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2024· 3 entries
JD Supra: Presidential Leadership Lessons- Reassessing the Legacy of Warren G. Harding
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Valley News Live: Countdown to 47: Warren G. Harding, the Twenty-Ninth President
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Yahoo: President Warren G. Harding's funeral in Marion in 1923 drew an estimated 100,000 mourners
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2022· 1 entry
c-span: Lesson Plan: Rethinking President Warren G. Harding
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “U.S. President Warren G. Harding wagered and lost White House china in a poker game.” Unproven.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “U.S. President Warren G. Harding wagered and lost White House china in a poker game.” Unproven.
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2015· 2 entries
Genetic testing of Harding's descendants determined, with more than a 95% chance of accuracy, that he lacked sub-Saharan African forebears within four generations
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DNA testing proved Blaesing was his daughter
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2004· 2 entries
“Warren G. Harding citado em "You're One Cool Cat" - página 15, Suzy Spafford - Harvest House Publishers, 2004, ISBN 0736914161, 9780736914161 - 48 páginas”
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John Dean, noted for his involvement in another presidential scandal, Watergate, wrote the Harding volume in "The American Presidents" series of short biographies, edited by Arthur M
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1971· 1 entry
With the letters donated to the Library of Congress
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1968· 1 entry
“Remark to Judson Welliver, as quoted in Francis Russell (1968) The Shadow of Blooming Grove.”
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1964· 1 entry
Sparked a small spate of biographies, of which the most controversial was Russell's The Shadow of Blooming Grove (1968), which concluded that the rumors of black ancestry (the "shadow" of the title) deeply affected Hardi
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1963· 1 entry
Discovered letters from Harding to Phillips
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1959· 1 entry
“Remark to editor William Alan White, as quoted in Thomas Harry Williams et al. (1959) A History of the United States.”
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1929· 1 entry
Of accepting bribes, and in 1931 became the first U
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1927· 2 entries
Britton, who was also from Marion, published The President's Daughter, writing that Harding had fathered her child Elizabeth Ann Blaesing
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Miller was convicted and served prison time, but the jury again hung as to Daugherty
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1923· 30 entries
Just under a month after Harding's death, substantially on the terms proffered by Mexico
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Died 1923-08-02.
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Harding toured Vancouver, British Columbia as the first sitting American president to visit Canada
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Served as a model for negotiations with other nations
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“In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.”
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Died of a heart attack in San Francisco while on a western tour, and was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge
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“I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my god-damned friends, White, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor nights!”
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“Nossa tendência perigosa é esperar demais do governo, e ao mesmo tempo fazer pouco por ele.”
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And the lower rates substantially increased the money flowing to the treasury
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“It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.”
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“I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.”
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“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my god-damned friends, White, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor nights!”
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“There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.”
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“The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.”
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“A republic worth living in is worth fighting for, and sacrificing for, and dying for. In the fires of this conflict we shall wipe out the disloyalty of those who wear American garb without the faith, and establish a new concord of citizenship and a new devotion, so that we should have made a safe America the home and hope of a people who are truly American in heart and soul.”
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“My countrymen, the surpassing war of all times has involved us, and found us utterly unprepared in either a mental or military sense. The Republic must awaken. The people must understand. Our safety lies in full realization the fate of the nation and the safety of the world will be decided on the western battlefront of Europe.”
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“Only solitary men Know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything”
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“Só os solitários conhecem a alegria da amizade. Outros têm suas famílias, mas só para um solitário e um exilado os amigos são tudo.”
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“Deixem o homem preto votar quando é cabível votar, e proíbam o homem branco votar quando é inadequado votar.”
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And 1924, Daugherty's many enemies were delighted at the prospect of connecting him with the dishonesty, and assumed he had taken part in Teapot Dome, though Fall and Daugherty were not friends
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“Posso occuparmi dei miei nemici durante una lotta, ma sono i miei amici, i miei dannati amici, che di notte mi fanno camminare su e giù per la casa!”
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“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”
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“Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.”
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“I think it's an inspiration to patriotic devotion to safeguard America first, to stabilize America first, to prosper America first, to think of America first, to exalt America first, to live for and revere America first.”
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“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; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”
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“Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representative democracy.”
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“I want to see the time come when black men will regard themselves as full participants in the benefits and duties of American citizens. We cannot go on, as we have gone on for more than half a century, with one great section of our population . . . set off from real contribution to solving national issues, because of a division on race lines.”
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“The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.”
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“Very recently a striking message was flashed through the air from Rome to Washington. "Tell America," said the vigorous Prime Minister, "that I like her, like her because she is strong, simple, and direct. I wish Italy to be the same and shall try to make her so." God speed him! And God grant that America shall never forfeit the high honor borne by that sentient tribute from Mussolini!”
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“I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.”
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1922· 5 entries
Made a brief statement, praising the bill only for giving him some power to change rates
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To be followed by two other economic conservatives, Pierce Butler and Edward Terry Sanford, in 1923
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Which led to a voluntary agreement for licensing of radio frequencies through the Commerce Department
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“Relayed by Bishop William F. Anderson as a remark by a friend of Harding, in "Pictures Harding as Man of Prayer" (2 April 1922) New York Times”
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Harding proclaimed that America was in the age of the "motor car", which "reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of our present-day life"
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1921· 6 entries
Harding gave a speech in Birmingham, Alabama, to a segregated audience of 20,000 Whites and 10,000 Blacks
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As a quick means of restricting immigration
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The nation was in the midst of a postwar economic decline
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Hoover had the American Relief Administration, which he had headed, negotiate with the Russians to provide aid
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“Inaugural address (4 March 1921).”
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1921–1923).
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1920· 12 entries
Under a shadow cast by Woodrow Wilson, who wished to be nominated for a third term
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Assembling delegates who were bitterly divided, most recently over the results of a Senate investigation into campaign spending, which had just been released
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Prospered by taking nuanced positions
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Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1920–1921).
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But was considered a long shot before the convention
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“Nationalism and Americanism (1920).”
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The new 68th Congress saw that party fall to a 221–213 majority
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“The American Soldier (1920).”
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Led him to see political opportunity for his party in the Solid South
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But the Senate would not confirm Wilson's nominees to the Shipping Board
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Of which the most crucial to Harding was Ohio
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And was the overwhelming favorite for the Republican nomination
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1919· 2 entries
Harding made a low-key announcement of his presidential candidacy
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Career landmark: United States senator (1919–1921).
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1918· 1 entry
“1918 address to the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.”
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1917· 2 entries
“The Republic Must Awaken (1917).”
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Career landmark: United States senator (1917–1919).
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1916· 2 entries
“It is good to meet and drink at the fountains of wisdom inherited from the founding fathers of the Republic.”
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“Address to the 1916 Republican convention.”
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1915· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1915–1917).
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1914· 1 entry
The start of World War I and the prospect of a Catholic senator from Ohio increased nativist sentiment
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1912· 1 entry
Taft and Roosevelt were rivals for the Republican nomination
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1911· 1 entry
And became known as the Trinity Baptist Church in 1912
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1910· 1 entry
But was elected to the United States Senate in 1914—the state's first direct election for that office
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1909· 1 entry
And announced that he would seek a second term in the 1914 elections
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1908· 2 entries
Harding's Star endorsed Foraker and upbraided Roosevelt for trying to destroy the senator's career over a matter of conscience
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Were to choose the legislators who would decide whether to re-elect Foraker
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1904· 1 entry
Career landmark: Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1904–1906).
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1892· 2 entries
“he does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.”
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Harding traveled to Washington, where he met Democratic Nebraska Congressman William Jennings Bryan, and listened to the "Boy Orator of the Platte" speak on the floor of the House of Representatives
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1891· 1 entry
At their new home on Mount Vernon Avenue in Marion, which they had designed together in the Queen Anne style
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1888· 1 entry
At the age of 22, representing Marion County, and would be elected a delegate in most years until becoming president
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1884· 1 entry
Even though it was known that he had a mistress and might have fathered a child out of wedlock
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1883· 1 entry
Harding joined the Free Baptist Church in Marion, where he later served as a trustee for 25 years and of which he remained a member until his death
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1882· 1 entry
Studied at Ohio Central College, Bachelor of Science (1882).
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1880· 1 entry
To twice that in 1890, and to 12,000 by 1900
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1870· 1 entry
The Harding family, who were abolitionists, moved to Caledonia, where Tryon acquired The Argus, a local weekly newspaper
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1865· 1 entry
Born 1865-11-02.
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