First United States senator to be elected president An air of scandal and corruption infuses the legacy of the Harding administration. His election, predicated on a pledge to return the nation to "normalcy," ushered in a period of conservative Republicanism designed to slow the momentum of progressive legislation. Even the few noble accomplishments achieved by his administration were soon forgotten as tales of cronyism, greed, and influence-peddling came to light.
Harding fell from favor with the American public soon after his untimely, and at the time, controversial death Died: August 2, The Era First commercial radio broadcast The League of Nations formed Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti found guilty of murder and sentenced to death Japanese prime minister assassinated T.
Eliot publishes The Wasteland Reader's Digest begins publication. He attended a one-room schoolhouse and performed in the village band. Harding began attending college at age 14, and graduated from Ohio Central College in The same year he graduated, he began teaching in a country school, selling insurance, and purchased the Marion Daily Star.
Harding married Florence Kling de Wolfe in Harding's political career began in when he ran for, and won, a seat in the state legislature. Four years later, he won the post of lieutenant governor.
He served in that position for two years before returning to the newspaper industry for five years. He unsuccessfully ran for governor in , but ran for and won election to the U.
Senate in Harding was elected to the presidency on November 2, , winning 61 percent of the popular vote and 37 of 48 states in the electoral college. He defeated a fellow Ohioan, Democrat James Cox. He was the first sitting U. Following his election, Harding signed a number of bills passed by Congress seeking to roll back laws passed over the previous few decades, targeting issues like wartime controls, reducing taxes, establishing a federal budgetary system, raising tariffs, and limiting immigration.
During his presidency, the selection of a number of allies to cabinet positions known as the "Ohio Gang" caused the administration trouble. However, he also surrounded himself with individuals who were later accused of misconduct. Harding was popular while in office, but his reputation was tarnished following his death when Americans learned of corruption within his administration—even though he had not engaged in any of this criminal activity.
In one infamous incident, known as the Teapot Dome Scandal , Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall rented public lands to oil companies in exchange for gifts and personal loans. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes and spent less than a year in prison. Other government officials took payoffs and embezzled funds. Harding himself allegedly had extramarital affairs and drank alcohol in the White House , a violation of the 18th Amendment. In the summer of , Warren Harding embarked on a cross-country tour of the United States to promote his policies.
During the trip, the year-old president became sick, and on August 2 he died of what was likely a heart attack no autopsy was conducted at a San Francisco hotel. Millions of people across the nation gathered along the railroad tracks to pay their respects to Harding as his body was returned from the West Coast to Washington , D. Start your free trial today. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. The affair between the future president and the wife of one of his best friends, dry-goods store operator James Phillips, began in August when Harding was lieutenant governor of Ohio and spanned his six years in the U.
Senate before his landslide election to the White Florence Harding was an American first lady and the wife of Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States. Florence Mabel Kling had Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Help inform the discussion Support the Miller Center.
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