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Warren G. Harding

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Also known as Warren Harding, Warren Gamaliel Harding, President Harding, W. G. Harding, W. Harding, President Warren Harding

president of the United States from 1921 to 1923

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Warren G. Harding was a male person from the United States. He is recognized in the US Presidents and US Senators collections. Born in 1865, he died in 1923. He had one child and stood 183 units tall.

Harding is associated with five works, including *Ohio Legislative Memorial to Colonel Roosevelt*, *The Warren G. Harding papers: an inventory to the microfilm edition*, *Inaugural addresses of President Warren G. Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge*, *What a country-boy did with 200 pounds of type*, and *The railways and prosperity*. He is referenced by 3,560 other encyclopedia articles.

His recorded quotes include the statement: "It is good to meet and drink at the fountains of wisdom inherited from the founding fathers of the Republic."

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Person · Open Library

Born
1865
Died
1923
Works
5

Top works

  • Ohio Legislative Memorial to Colonel Roosevelt
  • The Warren G. Harding papers: an inventory to the microfilm edition
  • Inaugural addresses of President Warren G. Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge
  • What a country-boy did with 200 pounds of type
  • The railways and prosperity

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1865-11-02
Active to
1923-08-02

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
51
Total plays
645

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Quotes

  • In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.
  • "It is good to meet and drink at the fountains of wisdom inherited from the founding fathers of the Republic."
  • My countrymen, the surpassing war of all times has involved us, and found us utterly unprepared in either a mental or military sense. The Republic must awaken. The people must understand. Our safety lies in full realization the fate of the nation and the safety of the world will be decided on the western battlefront of Europe.
  • If the Russian failure should become the tragic impotency of nations, if Italy should yield to the pressure of military might, if heroic France should be martyred on her flaming altars of liberty and justice and only the soul of heroism remain, if England should starve and her sacrifices and resolute warfare should prove in vain, if all these improbable disasters should attend, even then we should fight on and on, making the world's cause our cause.
  • A republic worth living in is worth fighting for, and sacrificing for, and dying for. In the fires of this conflict we shall wipe out the disloyalty of those who wear American garb without the faith, and establish a new concord of citizenship and a new devotion, so that we should have made a safe America the home and hope of a people who are truly American in heart and soul.
  • I think it's an inspiration to patriotic devotion to safeguard America first, to stabilize America first, to prosper America first, to think of America first, to exalt America first, to live for and revere America first.

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Encyclopedic overview

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) 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 presidents at the time of his death. After that, a number of scandals were exposed that greatly damaged his reputation.

Harding lived in rural Ohio all his life, except when political service took him elsewhere. As a young man, he bought The Marion Star and built it into a successful newspaper. Harding served in the Ohio State Senate from 1900 to 1904, and was lieutenant governor for two years. He was defeated for governor in 1910, but was elected to the United States Senate in 1914—the state's first direct election for that office. Harding ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1920, but was considered a long shot before the convention. When the leading candidates could not garner a majority, and the convention deadlocked, support for Harding increased, and he was nominated on the tenth ballot. He conducted a front porch campaign, remaining mostly in Marion and allowing people to come to him. He promised a return to normalcy of the pre–World War I period, and defeated Democratic nominee James M. Cox in a landslide, becoming the first sitting senator to be elected president.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Warren G. Harding” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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