Warren g harding fact file

Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. The life of Warren G. Harding : from the simple life of the farm to the glamor and power of the White House Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Topics Harding, Warren G. Addeddate Call number There are no reviews yet. While editing the Star , Harding was the target of personal attacks by the editor of a competing newspaper, the Independent.

Harding was elected to the Ohio State Senate in before taking office as lieutenant governor from to From to , he served in the U. Along with running mate Coolidge, he defeated Democratic candidate James Cox by winning 60 percent of the popular vote and 76 percent of the Electoral College. Though Harding himself was never implicated in any wrongdoing, his cabinet was embroiled in controversy. Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall was found to have leased public land to oil companies in exchange for gifts in the Teapot Dome Scandal.

He spent a little under a year in prison. Attorney General Harry Daugherty was accused of selling liquor permits during Prohibition. Several other officials took bribes. Harding married his wife Florence in , but he was far from faithful: He had two affairs that we know of.

In , letters between Harding and one of his mistresses that had been sealed for 50 years were finally released by the Library of Congress. In them, Harding expressed his affection for his mistress, Carrie Fulton Phillips. Written on official Senate stationary, the letters, dated between and , offer a glimpse into his proclivities.

He married a divorcee, Mrs. Florence Kling De Wolfe. He was a trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church, a director of almost every important business, and a leader in fraternal organizations and charitable enterprises.

He served in the state Senate and as Lieutenant Governor, and unsuccessfully ran for Governor. He delivered the nominating address for President Taft at the Republican Convention. Thus a group of Senators, taking control of the Republican Convention when the principal candidates deadlocked, turned to Harding.

He won the Presidential election by an unprecedented landslide of 60 percent of the popular vote. They eliminated wartime controls and slashed taxes, established a Federal budget system, restored the high protective tariff, and imposed tight limitations upon immigration. Word began to reach the President that some of his friends were using their official positions for their own enrichment.

Looking wan and depressed, Harding journeyed westward in the summer of , taking with him his upright Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover. He did not live to find out how the public would react to the scandals of his administration.

In August of , he died in San Francisco of a heart attack. The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.