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Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was an American politician who served as 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 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 tarnished 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 allowed the people to come to him. He promised a return to normalcy of the pre–World War I period, and won in a landslide over Democrat James M. Cox, to become the first sitting senator elected president. Harding appointed a number of respected figures to his cabinet, including Andrew Mellon at Treasury, Herbert Hoover at Commerce, and Charles Evans Hughes at the State Department. A major foreign policy achievement came with the Washington Naval Conference of 1921–1922, in which the world's major naval powers agreed on a naval limitations program that lasted a decade. Harding released political prisoners who had been arrested for their opposition to World War I. In 1923, Harding died of a heart attack in San Francisco while on a western tour, and was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge. Harding died as one of the most popular presidents in history, but the subsequent exposure of scandals eroded his popular regard, as did revelations of extramarital affairs. Harding's interior secretary, Albert B. Fall, and his attorney general, Harry Daugherty, were each later tried for corruption in office. Fall was convicted though Daugherty was not. These trials greatly damaged Harding's posthumous reputation. In historical rankings of the U.S. presidents during the decades after his term in office, Harding was often rated among the worst. However, in recent decades, many historians have begun to fundamentally reassess the conventional views of Harding's historical record in office. Early life and career Childhood and education Warren Harding was born on November 2, 1865, in Blooming Grove, Ohio. Nicknamed "Winnie" as a small child, he was the eldest of eight children born to George Tryon Harding (usually known as Tryon) and Phoebe Elizabeth (née Dickerson) Harding. Phoebe was a state-licensed midwife. Tryon farmed and taught school near Mount Gilead. Through apprenticeship, study and a year of medical school, Tryon became a doctor and started a small practice. Harding's first ancestor in the Americas was Richard Harding, who arrived from England to Massachusetts Bay around 1624. Harding also had ancestors from Wales, Scotland, and some of Harding's maternal ancestors were Dutch, including the wealthy Van Kirk family.It was rumored by a political opponent in Blooming Grove that one of Harding's great-grandmothers was African American. His great-great-grandfather Amos Harding claimed that a thief, who had been caught in the act by the family, started the rumor in an attempt at extortion or revenge. In 2015, genetic testing of Harding's descendants determined, with more than a 95% chance of accuracy, that he lacked sub-Saharan African forebears within four generations.In 1870, the Harding family, who were abolitionists, moved to Caledonia, where Tryon acquired The Argus, a local weekly newspaper. At The Argus, Harding, from the age of 11, learned the basics of the newspaper business. In late 1879, at the age of 14, Harding enrolled at his father's alma mater—Ohio Central College in Iberia—where he proved an adept student. He and a friend put out a small newspaper, the Iberia Spectator, during their final year at Ohio Central, intended to appeal to both the college and the town. During his final year, the Harding family moved to Marion, about 6 miles (10 km) from Caledonia, and when he graduated in 1882, he joined them there. Editor In Harding's youth, the majority of the population still lived on farms and in small towns. He would spend much of his life in Marion, a small city in rural central Ohio, and would become closely associated with it. When Harding rose to high office, he made clear his love of Marion and its way of life, telling of the many young Marionites who had left and enjoyed success elsewhere, while suggesting that the man, once the "pride of the school", who had remained behind and become a janitor, was "the happiest one of the lot".Upon graduating, Harding had stints as a teacher and as an insurance man, and made a brief attempt at studying law. He then raised $300 (equivalent to $9,400 in 2022) in partnership with others to purchase a failing newspaper, The Marion Star, weakest of the growing city's three papers, and its only daily. The 18-year-old Harding used the railroad pass that came with the paper to attend the 1884 Republican National Convention, where he hobnobbed with better-known journalists and supported the presidential nominee, former Secretary of State James G. Blaine. Harding returned from Chicago to find that the paper had been reclaimed by the sheriff. During the election campaign, Harding worked for the Marion Democratic Mirror and was annoyed at having to praise the Democratic presidential nominee, New York Governor Grover Cleveland, who won the election. Afterward, with the financial aid of his father, the budding newspaperman redeemed the paper.Through the later years of the 1880s, Harding built the Star. The city of Marion tended to vote Republican (as did Ohio), but Marion County was Democratic. Accordingly, Harding adopted a tempered editorial stance, declaring the daily Star nonpartisan and circulating a weekly edition that was moderate Republican. This policy attracted advertisers and put the town's Republican weekly out of business. According to his biographer, Andrew Sinclair: The success of Harding with the Star was certainly in the model of Horatio Alger. He started with nothing, and through working, stalling, bluffing, withholding payments, borrowing back wages, boasting, and manipulating, he turned a dying rag into a powerful small-town newspaper. Much of his success had to do with his good looks, affability, enthusiasm, and persistence, but he was also lucky. As Machiavelli once pointed out, cleverness will take a man far, but he cannot do witho.... Discover the A M Harding popular books. Find the top 100 most popular A M Harding books.

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    Taste the Poison

    A.M. Hardin

    Demons, magic and zombies… and that's just been in the last few months.I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty freaking nervous to find out what the hell is next.Thankfully I can go back ...

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    Legacy

    A.M. Hardin

    Cherish is the long lost daughter; the last Princess of her Kingdom.Being on the run when framed for something you didn't do is anything but fun.Cherish has been in hiding with her...

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    Reign

    A.M. Hardin

    You would think that getting to live in peace in the knowledge that your Kingdom is no longer overruled by a bloodthirsty, deranged tyrant would help you to relax.That's not the ca...

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    Fear The Dead

    A.M. Hardin

    Demons exist. So, why shouldn't zombies?They're fg creepy as hell for one. For two, the damn things are attacking people in order to draw Kara out. A month ago Kara's life was...

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    The Corner of Harley Street

    H. H. Bashford

    With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are w...

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    Farleigh M. Herald and A. M. Herald v. J. B. Hardin

    Supreme Court of Florida

    TERRELL, J. This appeal is from a final decree in a foreclosure suit. The appellants are husband and wife and were defendants below. Teh lands described in the mortgage was the se...

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    Speak for the Dead

    A. M. Harding

    Who speaks for those with no voice of their own?The suburb of Crawfield is a mire of neglect, crime, and petty vandalism. Still, all is not lost, not yet. There are those who bri...

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    Hardin v. Farris

    New Mexico Court of Appeals

    Plaintiffs appeal the order of the trial court granting defendants motion for judgment on the pleadings. The trial court, by granting the motion, accepted all of the allegations in...

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    Trust The Dark

    A.M. Hardin

    No one goes to a party and expects to become the sacrifice in a demonic ritual. Especially when demons aren't real. Right? As it turns out, I find myself in exactly that posit...

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    Mercy Ashby Box Set

    A.M. Hardin

    Mercy's Protectors:Someone's after Mercy and they won't stop until they have her.Demons have been looking for her for years. Mercy doesn't know why they want her so badly. She only...

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    Hardin v. State Tax Commissioner

    New Mexico Supreme Court

    The owner of the Park Plaza, a highrise, luxury apartment building in Albuquerque, appealed the county assessors valuation of $2,657,000.00 to the county board of equalization. The...

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    Marked

    A.M. Hardin

    Cherish has always been just a normal girl. Lately, Cherish has been seeing some weird glimmering surrounding certain people. At first, she doesn't think anything of it. Until...

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    Till Death Do Us Part

    Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

    The author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here returns with a thriller set in the vineyards of Napa Valley that asks: what happens when the husband you thought died years ago shows u...