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Warren Harding - 29th President
Party: Republican
Term: March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923
Age at Inauguration: 55
Life Span: November 2, 1865 - August 2, 1923 [57]
Spouse: Florence Kling De Wolfe - Age at Marriage: 25
Vice President: Calvin Coolidge

  • The first election returns of a presidential contest broadcast by KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, PA announced Warren Harding as the twenty-ninth President
  • He was the first President to own a radio, and the first heard on the radio when he broadcast a speech at the Francis Scott Key Memorial, on June 14, 1922
  • Harding was the first seated senator to win the office, followed only by John Kennedy in 1960
  • As owner of the Marion Star in Marion, OH, he was the first newspaper owner elected president
  • Most historians consider his administration as the most corrupt on record, as he openly served alcohol at the White House during Prohibition while sponsoring no less than three poker games there per week
  • Harding supported at least two mistresses while regularly taking a hotel room with local prostitutes
  • He was a regular at illegal drinking establishments in the capital and left most of the nation's business to friends and staff who sold positions in the government to the highest bidder
  • Just before his untimely death, Congress had begun a full scale investigation of his administration that probably would have led to his impeachment
  • Harding died August 2, 1923 on the West Coast after a trip to Alaska and Canada; the first President o visit either territory Presidential Death in Office