President Harding's life
Warren Gamaliel Harding, (1865-1923), was the 29th President of the United States. He was elected president in 1920 by an overwhelming vote in a postwar reaction against President Wilson's international policies. The first American president to take office after World War I, Harding was also the first president to be born after the Civil War.
Harding himself felt that his administration would be remembered in history for the treaties negotiated following the Washington Conference he had called in 1921; at the conference the governments of the United States, Britain, France, Italy, and Japan had agreed to limit naval construction for 10 years and to scrap many existing ships. But in fact, his 2 years in office are remembered mainly for the scandals that clouded his administration.
Early Years
Warren Harding was born on Nov. 2, 1865, in the hamlet of Blooming Grove, Ohio, the son and first child of George Tryon Harding II, a Civil War veteran, farmer, horse trader, and later marginally successful rural doctor.
At the age of 14, Harding entered Ohio Central College, and after he graduated he briefly became a teacher. Then he became an odd-job reporter for the Democratic weekly Mirror, only to lose that job because of his over enthusiasm for the 1884 Republican presidential candidate, James G. Blaine.
In November 1884 the 19-year-old Harding and two friends bought the Marion Star, a small daily paper that was scarcely more than a flyer. Within five years the Star had become the foremost paper in Marion county and one of Ohio's most successful small-town papers. By 1914, when Harding was elected to the U. S. Senate, the Star was earning him an income of $20,000 a year.
In 1891 he married the divorced Florence Kling DeWolfe, the daughter of Marion's leading banker. Their daughter Elizabeth Ann was born in 1919.
Harding was elected as a Republican to the state Senate in 1899. He rapidly became one of the most popular senators in Columbus. In his second term
Harding himself felt that his administration would be remembered in history for the treaties negotiated following the Washington Conference he had called in 1921; at the conference the governments of the United States, Britain, France, Italy, and Japan had agreed to limit naval construction for 10 years and to scrap many existing ships. But in fact, his 2 years in office are remembered mainly for the scandals that clouded his administration.
Early Years
Warren Harding was born on Nov. 2, 1865, in the hamlet of Blooming Grove, Ohio, the son and first child of George Tryon Harding II, a Civil War veteran, farmer, horse trader, and later marginally successful rural doctor.
At the age of 14, Harding entered Ohio Central College, and after he graduated he briefly became a teacher. Then he became an odd-job reporter for the Democratic weekly Mirror, only to lose that job because of his over enthusiasm for the 1884 Republican presidential candidate, James G. Blaine.
In November 1884 the 19-year-old Harding and two friends bought the Marion Star, a small daily paper that was scarcely more than a flyer. Within five years the Star had become the foremost paper in Marion county and one of Ohio's most successful small-town papers. By 1914, when Harding was elected to the U. S. Senate, the Star was earning him an income of $20,000 a year.
In 1891 he married the divorced Florence Kling DeWolfe, the daughter of Marion's leading banker. Their daughter Elizabeth Ann was born in 1919.
Harding was elected as a Republican to the state Senate in 1899. He rapidly became one of the most popular senators in Columbus. In his second term