Warren Gamaliel Harding Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States (1921–23), a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate, where he played a minor role.With the Republican Party (GOP) convention near deadlock, Harding was chosen as an inoffensive compromise candidate in the 1920 election. He brought leading advertising experts on board, especially Albert Lasker, to publicize his presidential appearance and conservative promises. He promised America a "return to normalcy", with an end to violence and radicalism, a strong economy, and independence from European intrigues. Harding represented the conservative wing of the GOP in opposition to progressive followers of the late Theodore Roosevelt (who died in 1919) and Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. He defeated Democrat and fellow Ohio newspaper publisher James M. Cox with the largest popular vote landslide (60% to 34%) in presidential history.Harding sought out the "best minds" in his cabinet, including Andrew Mellon at the Treasury, Herbert Hoover at Commerce, and Charles Evans Hughes at the State Department. He rewarded friends and contributors, known as the "Ohio Gang", with powerful positions. Multiple cases of corruption were exposed during his presidency and after his death, including the notorious Teapot Dome scandal, regarded in pre-Watergate times as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics".Domestically, Harding signed the first federal child welfare program, and dealt with striking mining and railroad workers in part by supporting an 8-hour work day. He created the Bureau of the Budget to prepare the first United States federal budget. Harding advocated an anti-lynching bill to curb violence against African Americans, but it failed to pass Congress. In foreign affairs, Harding spurned the League of Nations and negotiated peace treaties with Germany and Austria. His greatest foreign policy achievement came in the Washington Naval Conference of 1921–22, in which the world's major naval powers agreed on a naval limitations program that held sway for a decade.In August 1923, Harding suddenly collapsed and died in California. His administration's many scandals have earned Harding a bottom-tier ranking from historians, but in recent years there has been some recognition of his fiscal responsibility and endorsement of African-American civil rights. Harding has been viewed as a more modern politician who embraced technology and was sensitive to the plights of minorities, women, and labor.
Dr. George Tryon Harding, Sr., Phoebe Elizabeth Harding
Siblings
Carolyn Harding Votaw
Star Sign
Scorpio
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[to White House aide Judson Welliver] Jud, you have a college education, haven't you? 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! There must be a man in the country somewhere who could weigh both sides and know the truth. Probably he is in some college or other. But I don't know where to find him. I don't know who he is, and I don't know how to get him. My God, this is a hell of a place for a man like me to be!
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[to noted editor William Allen White] My God, this is a hell of a job! I have no trouble with my enemies, I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my God-damn friends... they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!
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Progressivism is not proclamation or palaver. It is not pretense nor play on prejudice. It is not of personal pronouns, nor perennial pronouncement. It is not the perturbation of a people passion-wrought, nor a promised proposed. [Placing President William Howard Taft's name in nomination at the 1912 Republican National Convention]
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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. [Speech in Boston, May 1920]
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[when asked by Connecticut Senator Frank Brandegee how he liked being President] Frank, it is hell! No other word can describe it.
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Many historians have argued people only voted for him because he "looked presidential".
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According to one account, Harding himself once lamented that he was unfit to hold office.
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He was a heavy drinker and continued to be one even after the enaction of Prohibition, a policy that he supported in public but ignored behind closed doors.
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First U.S. President to deliver a speech over radio (June 14, 1922, when he spoke at the dedication of the Francis Scott Key memorial at Ft. McHenry, Baltimore (MD) on station WEAR).
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He used tobacco in all its forms - cigarettes, cigars, snuff, a pipe and chewing tobacco.
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When he died in 1923, he left the income from the bulk of his estate, valued at $850,000 to his wife Florence. He left his father the interest from $50,000 worth of government bonds. The principal, after the deaths of his wife and father, was to go to his brother and three sisters, except for the following bequests; $25,000 to the Marion Park Commission, $10,000 to each of his nieces and nephews, $4,000 to each of his wife's 2 grandchildren, $2,000 to Trinity to Baptist Church, and $1,000 to Episcopal St. Paul's Church.
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The fifth U.S. president to die in office. Ironically, all presidents to have died in office since the first (William Henry Harrison in 1841) were elected 20 years apart: Harrison in 1840, Abraham Lincoln in 1860, James Garfield in 1880, McKinley in 1900, Warren G. Harding in 1920, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, and John F. Kennedy in 1960. Ronald Reagan (elected 1980) was the victim of an assassin's bullet in 1981, but he survived and broke the 120-year curse that had plagued the U.S. Presidency.
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His Cabinet was nicknamed the "Ohio gang" from their being friends of his. They often played poker and he once gambled and lost an entire White House China set.
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While President, Harding allegedly had assignations with his mistress, Nan Britton, in the closet of the Oval Office. She claimed that Harding was the father of her daughter, born in 1919, and had promised to support her. While there is no proof of the allegations, which were published by Britton in a book "The President's Daughter" (1927), she reportedly had been obsessed with Harding, a friend of her father's, since she was a girl.
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Had a torrid affair with Carrie Phillips, a friend of his wife's. Carrie was married to James Phillips, the co-owner of one of Marion, Ohio's leading department stores, the Uhler-Phillips Co. Charming, and a great beauty, Carrie eventually bedded the husband of her friend Florence Harding; Warren G. was then the owner-publisher of "The Marion Star" newspaper. Florence, whom her husband called "The Duchess," was outraged when she found out about the affair. Carrie Phillips was not the only one of her friends that her husband had committed adultery with, and apparently, Warren G.'s eye wandered even when he was in the White House.
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Although Harding was a very effective politician during his term his legacy has been stained by two scandals that came to light after his death. The first was a scandal involving an erroneous claim that his wife had poisoned her husband. The other was "The Teapot Dome Scandal" which involved an oil reserve in Teapot Dome Wyoming that was suppose to be reserved for the Navy but some members of his cabinet who felt that the Navy could be supplied by big oil companies began selling the oil to oil companies for an illegal kickback. Those kickback made some members of Harding's cabinet very rich men and the scandal broke when it became clear that their income had rapidly grown. Although it was never proven that Harding had a hand in the scandal, his reputation has to this day never recovered.
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Popularized the word "bloviate" which is a loud pronouncement of a pompous, boastful statement.
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President of the United States, 4 March 1921 - 2 August 1923 (died in office).
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Buried with his wife in the Harding Tomb, Marion, Ohio.
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Pictured on a US 1½¢ regular-issue postage stamp issued 19 March 1925.
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Pictured on the $2.00 US postage stamp in the Presidential Series, issued 29 September 1938.
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Redskins Pay Tribute to Big Chief Harding
1921
Short
Himself
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Cronkite Remembers
1997
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America
1997
TV Movie documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Inside the White House
1995
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Portraits of Presidents: Presidents of a World Power (1901-)
1992
Video documentary
Himself
Hollywood
1980
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The Age of Ballyhoo
1973
Video documentary
Himself
Project XX
1956
TV Series documentary
Himself - President
I Never Forget a Face
1956
Short documentary
Himself
This Was Yesterday
1954
Documentary short
Himself
The Naughty Twenties
1951
Documentary short
Himself
Fifty Years Before Your Eyes
1950
Documentary
Himself
The Golden Twenties
1950
Documentary
Himself
Whirlpool
1934
Himself - President Warren G. Harding (uncredited)
Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match
2016
TV Movie documentary
Himself
How to Win the US Presidency
2016
Documentary
Himself
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
TV Series documentary
Himself
Grave of the Zombie Antelope
2013
Himself
America's Book of Secrets
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
Prohibition
2011
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The Presidents
2005
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Modern Marvels
2004
TV Series documentary
Himself - President of the USA
ESPN SportsCentury
2000
TV Series documentary
Himself
Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing