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Warren G. Harding
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Born in the village of Corsica, later Blooming Grove, Ohio, Nov. 2, 1865, Warren G. Harding was the eldest of eight children of George Tryon and Phoebe Dickerson Harding. The growing family had a hard time making ends meet in the trying days following the Civil War. The father worked as a farmer, a country doctor, and a general “trader.”
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Although history has not been kind to Warren G. Harding, with personal and political scandals dominating Harding historiography until the 1960s, historians have reexamined and reappraised his presidency in the past 20 years. This volume, a full length bibliography on Harding, provides full access to the Harding literature. Including over 3000 entries, the work provides wide coverage of foreign policy and domestic policies that were formative for the entire decade of the 1920s. In addition to political and administration coverage, the book includes Harding's personal life and times. Entries include books, scholarly articles, contemporary writings, newspapers, manuscripts, photographs, and films relating to Harding and his administration. Chapters are devoted to early and mature stages of his life, Harding iconography, and figures important to his administration.
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In November 1914, Republican Warren G. Harding defeated then Ohio Attorney General Timothy S. Hogan for the U.S. Senate. He was made chairman of the Republican National Convention that nominated Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. While in Washington, Senator Harding and his wife, Florence, first lived at 1612 21st Street, NW. This house was later demolished. In July 1917, the Hardings purchased this house, a neo-Georgian style duplex with a terrace and a side entrance. They lived in this house through the end of his Senate term, though Harding used his home in Marion, Ohio during the summer of 1920 to conduct his famous “front porch†campaign.
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During the campaign, rumors spread that Harding's great-great-grandfather was a West Indian black and that other blacks might be found in his family tree. In response, Harding's campaign manager said, "No family in the state (of Ohio) has a clearer, a more honorable record than the Hardings, a blue-eyed stock from New England and Pennsylvania, the finest pioneer blood."
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Harding wished to remain neutral in labor disputes and worked behind the scenes for conciliation, but when his hand was forced, he took management's side. Thus, after his attempted mediation in the 1922 railroad shopmen's strike failed, he approved a sweeping injunction against the strikers - this won him the bitter enmity of organized labor.
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While president, Harding played golf, poker twice a week, followed baseball and boxing, and sneaked off to burlesque shows. His advisors were known as the "Poker Cabinet" because they all played poker together.
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