Biography

Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents. After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including Teapot Dome, as well as an extramarital affair with Nan Britton, which diminished his reputation.
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After school he attended college, graduating in 1882. Harding subsequently tried his hand at teaching, insurance salesman and law student, but only found a suitable field of activity for him at a newspaper. In 1884 he bought a local newspaper, the Marion Star, which brought him success in the following years. In 1891 Harding married the widow Florence DeWolfe. As a supporter of the Republican Party, Harding was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1899, where he served for two terms. In 1914 he was elected to the US Senate, where he served as a Republican representative from Ohio from 1915 to 1921.

In this role, Harding campaigned for high protective tariffs and the privatization of the railways. He also supported the law establishing Prohibition. In 1920, Harding won the presidential election campaign as an opponent of President Woodrow T. Wilson's world war policy, not least against the background of the experience of the end of the First World War. In his subsequent term in office from 1921 to 1923, the new US President initiated the transition to the era of normality after the First World War. Through political reforms, he promoted the privatization of public companies and protected major economic interests.

At the same time, he also advocated for a public welfare program and occupational safety regulations. The most important foreign policy initiative of Harding's administration concerned the Washington Conference, at which a series of treaties in November 1921 limited the armaments of the USA, Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy, guaranteed the status quo in the Pacific, confirmed the independence of China and the The "Open Door" policy was reaffirmed as a world trade principle. Due to increasing cases of corruption in his government and administration, the president came under domestic political pressure from 1923 onwards. In the summer of the same year he suffered a heart attack from which he never recovered.

Warren Gamaliel Harding died on August 2, 1923 in San Francisco.
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Warren G. Harding is the 29th president of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular U.S. presidents to that point.

As a young man, he bought The Marion Star and built it into a successful newspaper. In 1899, he was elected to the Ohio State Senate; he spent four years there, then was elected lieutenant governor. He was defeated for governor in 1910, but was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. He ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1920, and he was considered a long shot until after the convention began. The leading candidates could not gain the needed majority, and the convention deadlocked. Harding's support gradually grew until he was nominated on the tenth ballot. He conducted a front porch campaign, remaining for the most part in Marion and allowing the people to come to him, and running on a theme of a return to normalcy of the pre-World War I period. He won in a landslide over Democrat James M. Cox and the then imprisoned Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs and became the first sitting senator to be elected president.
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