Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Help inform the discussion Support the Miller Center. University of Virginia Miller Center. Harding - Key Events. Breadcrumb U. Presidents Warren G. Harding Warren G. March 4, Harding inaugurated. April 20, Thompson-Urrutia Treaty. May 19, May 27, May 31, Denby transfers oil control. June 10, Budget and Accounting Act.
June 20, Alice Robertson presides over House. June 30, Harding appoints Taft Chief Justice. July 2, Official end of war with Germany. September 26, Hoover presides over unemployment conference. November 12, Washington Naval Armament Conference. November 23, Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act. As senator, he actively supported business interests and advocated for protective tariffs. Like other Republicans at the time, he opposed Woodrow Wilson 's "Fourteen Points" peace plan and supported prohibition.
Although Harding held strong views on important issues of the time, he didn't often actively participate in the legislative process. According to his congressional voting record, he missed two-thirds of the votes held during his tenure as senator, including the vote on women's suffrage—a cause that he strongly supported. In , political insider and friend Harry Daugherty began to promote Harding for the Republican presidential nomination.
Daugherty believed that Harding "looked like a president. He was well-known by Republican leaders, had no major political enemies, was "right" on all the issues and represented the critically important state of Ohio. At the convention in June , after 10 rounds of voting, the nomination was deadlocked.
Finally, on the 11th ballot, Harding emerged as the presidential nominee, with Calvin Coolidge as his running mate. During the campaign, Harding pledged to return the country to "normalcy. Opponents James M. Cox and Cox's running mate, Franklin D. Roosevelt , only carried the deeply Democratic southern states. Harding's administration was determined to roll back the momentum of progressive legislation that had taken place for the past 20 years.
He personally overturned or allowed Congress to reverse many policies of the Wilson Administration, and approved tax cuts on higher incomes and protective tariffs. His administration supported limiting immigration and ending spending controls that had been instituted during World War I.
Harding also signed the Budget and Accounting Act of , which allowed the president to submit a unified budget to Congress in the past, the separate cabinet departments had submitted their own budgets. The act also established the General Accounting Office to audit government expenditures.
Additionally, Harding personally championed civil liberties for African Americans, and his administration supported liberalizing farm credit. In foreign affairs, as in domestic policy, Harding delegated much responsibility to several key cabinet members.
The Harding Administration also played an important role in rebuilding Europe after WWI, and in establishing an "open door" trading policy in Asia. As president, Harding often seemed overwhelmed by the burdens of the office. The scandal involved the secretary of the interior leasing oil-rich lands in Wyoming to companies in exchange for personal loans.
Prior to serving as president, Harding owned a newspaper and served in a number of other political offices: Ohio state legislator , lieutenant governor , and U. Below is an abbreviated outline of Harding's professional and political career: [2]. Harding was born on November 2, , in Corsica, Ohio, to two doctors, father George and mother Phoebe.
He attended a one-room schoolhouse and performed in the village band. Harding began attending college at age 14, and graduated from Ohio Central College in The same year he graduated, he began teaching in a country school, selling insurance, and purchased the Marion Daily Star. Harding married Florence Kling de Wolfe in Harding's political career began in when he ran for, and won, a seat in the state legislature.
Four years later, he won the post of lieutenant governor. He served in that position for two years before returning to the newspaper industry for five years.
He unsuccessfully ran for governor in , but ran for and won election to the U. Senate in Harding was elected to the presidency on November 2, , winning 61 percent of the popular vote and 37 of 48 states in the electoral college. Even the few noble accomplishments achieved by his administration were soon forgotten as tales of cronyism, greed, and influence-peddling came to light. Harding fell from favor with the American public soon after his untimely, and at the time, controversial death Died: August 2, The Era First commercial radio broadcast The League of Nations formed Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti found guilty of murder and sentenced to death Japanese prime minister assassinated T.
Eliot publishes The Wasteland Reader's Digest begins publication. Domestic Policy Warren Harding took office promising to undo many of the progressive policies of Woodrow Wilson's administration.
Ushering in an era of conservative Republicanism, Harding wasted little time in cutting taxes on higher incomes and raising tariff rates.
However, charges of patronage and wrongdoing sidetracked the president's agenda early in his administration.
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