American President
Warren G. Harding (1865–1923)
Facts at a Glance
- Term
- 29th President of the United States (1921–1923)
- Born
- November 2, 1865, Corsica (now Blooming Grove), Ohio
- Nickname
- None
- Full Name
- Warren Gamaliel Harding
- Education
- Ohio Central College (graduated 1882)
- Religion
- Baptist
- Marriage
- July 8, 1891, to Florence Kling DeWolfe (1860–1924)
- Children
- None
- Career
- Editor-Publisher
- Political Party
- Republican
- Writings
- Rededicating America (1920), with Frederick E.Shortemeier; Our Common Country (1921), ed. by Frederick E. Shortemeier
- Died
- August 2, 1923, San Francisco, California
- Buried
- Harding Memorial, Marion, Ohio
- A Life in Brief
- A conservative politician from Ohio, Harding had few enemies because he rarely took a firm enough stand on an issue to make any. Who would have suspected that the man to succeed Woodrow Wilson, America’s most visionary President, would be a man who saw the President’s role as largely ceremonial? More »
Essays on Warren G. Harding and His Administration
- Warren Gamaliel Harding
- A Life in Brief
- Life Before the Presidency
- Campaigns and Elections
- Domestic Affairs
- Foreign Affairs
- Death of the President
- Family Life
- The American Franchise
- Impact and Legacy
- Key Events
- First Lady
- Florence Harding
- Vice President
- Calvin Coolidge (1921–1923)
- Secretary of State
- Charles Evans Hughes (1921–1923)
- Secretary of War
- John W. Weeks (1921–1923)
- Postmaster General
- William H. Hays (1921–1922)
- Hubert Work (1922–1923)
- Harry S. New (1923)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Albert B. Fall (1921–1923)
- Hubert Work (1923)
- Secretary of Commerce
- Herbert C. Hoover (1921–1923)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- Andrew W. Mellon (1921–1923)
- Attorney General
- Harry M. Daugherty (1921–1923)
- Secretary of the Navy
- Edwin Denby (1921–1923)
- Secretary of Agriculture
- Henry C. Wallace (1921–1923)
- Secretary of Labor
- James J. Davis (1921–1923)
Consulting Editor: Eugene Trani
Dr. Trani is the former president of Virginia Commonwealth University. His writings include:
Presidency of Warren G. Harding (part of the American Presidency Series, co-authored with David L. Wilson, The Regents Press of Kansas, 1977; second printing, 1985; third printing, 1989)
The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations (Co-authored with Donald E. Davis, published in English by University of Missouri Press, 2002; in Russian by Olma-Press Publishing House, 2002; in Chinese by Peking University Press, 2007)
Presidential Speeches
Below are selections from the Miller Center’s Warren G. Harding speech collection.
Scholarship and Speakers
The Miller Center of Public Affairs is a national nonpartisan center to research, reflect, and report on American government, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency. Below is a selection of Miller Center resources on Warren G. Harding.
Listen to Leonard Emmerglick’s 1987 presentation at the Miller Center
on Presidential Disability and
Presidential Succession.
Learn more about the Center’s National Commission on Presidential Disability and the 25th Amendment and its relationship to Harding.
Scripps Library Reference Resources
Below are links to reference resources prepared by the Miller Center’s Scripps Library, designed to help students and scholars conduct their research quickly.
Information on Warren G. Harding’s Private and Public Papers
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