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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioHARDING, Warren Gamaliel
(1865—1923)
Senate Years of Service:
1915-1921
Party:
Republican
HARDING, Warren Gamaliel, a Senator from Ohio and 29th President of the United States; born in Blooming Grove, Morrow County, Ohio, November 2, 1865; attended the public schools and Ohio Central College at Iberia; studied law for a short time; taught school; engaged in the insurance business; became editor and publisher of the Marion Star in 1884; member, State senate 1899-1903; lieutenant governor of Ohio 1904-1905; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1910; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1915, until his resignation, effective January 13, 1921, having been elected President; chairman, Committee on the Philippines (Sixty-sixth Congress); elected President of the United States on the Republican ticket, was inaugurated March 4, 1921, and served until his death in San Francisco, Calif., while on a tour of the Western States and Alaska, August 2, 1923; lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, August 8, 1923; interment in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Ohio; reinterment in Harding Memorial Tomb.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Downes, Randolph. The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding: 1865-1920.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1970; Dean, John W. Warren G. Harding
. New York: Times Books, 2004.
Accinelli, Robert D. “Was There a ‘New’ Harding? Warren G. Harding and the World Court Issue, 1920-1923.” Ohio History
84 (Autumn 1975): 168-81.
Adams, Samuel Hopkins. Incredible Era: The Life and Times of Warren Gamaliel Harding
. 1939. Reprint. New York: Octagon Books, 1979.
Alderfer, Harold Freed. “The Personality and Politics of Warren G. Harding.” Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 1929.
Bagby, Wesley M. “The ‘Smoke Filled Room’ and the Nomination of Warren G. Harding.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review
41 (March 1955): 657-74.
Boatmon, Ellis Gray. “Evolution of a President: The Political Apprenticeship of Warren G. Harding.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of South Carolina, 1966.
Chapple, Joseph Mitchell. Life and Times of Warren G. Harding, Our After-War President
. Boston: Chapple Publishing Co., 1924.
Cottrill, Dale E. The Conciliator
. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1969.
Cuneo, Sherman A. From Printer to President
. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1922.
Dean, John W. Warren G. Harding
. New York: Times Books, 2004.
Downes, Randolph C. The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1865-1920.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1970.
Frederick, Richard G., comp. Warren G. Harding: A Bibliography
. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Harding, Warren Gamaliel. Our Common Country: Mutual Good Will in America
. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1921.
Hartwell, Alena (Brown). Hardings: History of the Harding
Family. Boston: Press of W.H. Chapple, 1936.
Johnson, Willis Fletcher. The Life of Warren G. Harding, from the Simple Life of the Farm to the Glamor and Power of the White House
. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1923.
Lentz, Andrea D., ed. Warren G. Harding Papers
. Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, 1970. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1993. Microfilm. 263 reels and guide.
Lowerre, Nan Kathryn Jamieson. “Warren G. Harding and American Foreign Affairs, 1915-1923.” Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1968.
Moran, Philip R., ed. Warren G. Harding, 1865-1923: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids
. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1970.
Russell, Francis. The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times
. 1968. Reprint. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1988.
___. “The Shadow of Warren Harding.” Antioch Review
36 (Winter 1978): 57-76.
Russell, Thomas Herbert. The Illustrious Life and Work of Warren G. Harding, Twenty-Ninth President of the United States
. Chicago: T.H. Russell, 1923.
Schortemeier, Frederick E., ed. Rededicating America: Life and Recent Speeches of Warren G. Harding
. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1920.
Sinclair, Andrew. The Available Man: The Life Behind the Masks of Warren Gamaliel Harding
. New York: Macmillan Co., 1965.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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