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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 sitting U.S. presidents while in office.
Harding withdrew Smith's White House clearance and Daugherty told him to leave Washington. On May 30, 1923, Smith's dead body was found at Daugherty's apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. William J. Burns immediately took Smith's body away and there was no autopsy .
Harding's biographer, Samuel H. Adams, concluded that "Warren G. Harding died a natural death which, in any case, could not have been long postponed." [64] Immediately after President Harding's death, Mrs. Harding returned to Washington, D.C., and briefly stayed in the White House with the new president Calvin Coolidge and first lady. For a ...
Hagiographic accounts of Harding's life quickly followed his death, such as Joe Mitchell Chapple's Life and Times of Warren G. Harding, Our After-War President (1924). [3] By then, however, the scandals were breaking, and the Harding administration soon became a byword for corruption in the view of the public.
Mourners outside the home of Dr. George Harding, father of President Warren G. Harding, in August 2023. The president died of a heart attack on Aug. 2, 1923, during a tour of the American West.
Harding made no response, and Taft in a thank-you note reiterated the condition and stated that Chief Justice White had often told him he was keeping the position for Taft until a Republican held the White House. In January 1921, Taft heard through intermediaries that Harding planned to appoint him, if given the chance. [2]
Warren G. Harding: John Ringling Estate Bird Key, Florida: 1923–1929 Calvin Coolidge: Howard E. Coffin Estate Sapelo Island, Georgia: 1933–1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt: Little White House: Warm Springs, Georgia: 1945–1953 Harry S. Truman: Harry S. Truman Little White House [11] Key West, Florida: 1953–1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The grandson of U.S. President Warren G. Harding and his lover, Nan Britton, went to court in an effort to get the Republican’s remains exhumed from the presidential ...