Warren Harding

BIRTH NAME
Warren Gamaliel Harding

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

RELIGION
Baptist

EDUCATION
Ohio Central College B.S. 1882

VITALS
6 ft 0 in / 173 lbs

CAREER
1884-1915 Editor, The Marion Star, Marion, Ohio
1895 Unsuccessful candidate for County Auditor, Marion County
1900-04 State Senator, Ohio
1904-06 Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
1910 Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Ohio
1915-21 U.S. Senator, Ohio

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 2, 1920
Popular: Harding 16,153,115 (60%) James M. Cox 9,133,092 (34%);
Electoral: Harding 404 Cox 127

VICE PRESIDENT
Calvin Coolidge (1921-23)

ADMINISTRATION
Emergency Quota Act, Sheppard-Towner Act (1921); Teapot Dome Scandal (1922)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
William H. Taft (Chief), George Sutherland. Pierce Butler, Edward Sanford

FIRST LADY
Florence Mabel Kling (1921-23)

“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”
Inaugural Address, March 4, 1921

Portrait of Warren G. Harding by Edmund Hodgson Smart, 1923.