Warren G. Harding

Examples of Warren G. Harding in the following topics:

• The Election of 1920

  • In the 1920 presidential election, Republican Senator Warren G.
  • Harding soundly defeated Democratic Governor James M.
  • The Republicans chose Senator Warren G.
  • Republican Senator Warren Harding of Ohio secured a sweeping victory in the 1920 presidential election.
  • Democratic candidate James Cox, the governor of Ohio, lost to Warren Harding in the presidential election of 1920.

• Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920

  • Warren Harding won the 1920 Presidential election, which was dominated by post-World War I concerns and hostility towards Wilson's policies.
  • The Republicans nominated Senator Warren G.
  • With an almost four-to-one spending advantage, Harding won a landslide victory .
  • Harding waffled on the League, thereby keeping Republican "irreconcilables" in line.
  • Identify the post-war campaign issues that led to the election of Warren Harding in the 1920 election.

• Harding's Policies

  • President Warren G.
  • In an age of severe racial intolerance, Harding refused to engage in the typical racial animosity.
  • Harding placed African-Americans in some important federal positions, such as Walter L.
  • President Harding assumed office in 1921, in the midst of a postwar economic decline.
  • Identify the Harding administration's beneficial policies and those that were less popular.

• Wilson's Loss at Home

  • After Wilson's successor, Warren G.
  • Harding, continued American opposition to the League of Nations, Congress passed the Knox–Porter Resolution, bringing a formal end to hostilities between the U.S. and the Central Powers.
  • It was signed into law by Harding on July 21, 1921.

• The New Era

  • In the U.S. presidential election of 1920, the Republican Party ran Warren G.
  • Harding on a promise of a "return to normalcy" after the years of war, ethnic hatreds, race riots and exhausting reforms.
  • Harding proposed a settlement that was rejected by the rail companies, while Attorney General Harry M.
  • Vice President Calvin Coolidge succeeded Harding and in many ways could not have been more different than his predecessor.
  • A dour, puritanical and spotlessly honest man, Coolidge’s White House stood in sharp contrast to that of Harding.

• The Retreat from Progressivism

  • In the 1920 election, Warren G.
  • Harding ran against Democratic Ohio Governor James M.
  • Harding ran on a promise to "Return to Normalcy," a seldom-used term he popularized, and healing for the nation after World War I.
  • Describe the central components of the turn away from progressivism that characterized the Harding administration

• Promoting Peace Abroad

  • After World War I, manufacturing companies faced hard times as they attempted to convert from wartime production of weapons and planes to peacetime manufacturing of goods.
  • However, the pro-business policies put in place by President Warren G.
  • Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge, who became president following Harding’s death in 1923, fostered the growth of U.S. companies.

• Setbacks for Unions

  • In 1922, President Warren G.
  • Harding and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened a White House conference with manufacturers and unions to reduce the length of the 12-hour work day in a move to support the cause of labor, and the steel industry followed by reducing the 12-hour work day to eight hours.
  • Harding dispatched federal troops to end the uprising, which resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 miners and 30 strike busters, with another 985 miners tried and imprisoned.
  • Strike busters were brought in to fill the positions and Harding proposed a settlement giving shop workers concessions, but railroad owners objected and Harding had to deploy the National Guard and 2,200 U.S. marshals to keep the peace.
  • The Harding administration, which obtained a court injunction that destroyed the national railroad workers' strike in 1922, also helped to end a nationwide strike of about 650,000 miners.

• Administrative Corruption

  • After Warren G.
  • Harding himself was involved in scandals with women.
  • Harding had another affair with a woman named Nan Britton, the daughter of a friend of Harding, while he was still a senator and continuing throughout his presidency.
  • She also claimed they had a child together the year before his election as president, but it was not until 2015 that DNA testing confirmed Britton’s daughter, Elizabeth Ann Britton Harding Blaesing, was indeed fathered by Harding.
  • Identify the Teapot Dome Scandal and its effect on the Harding administration

• The Republican Era

  • President Harding ushered in a new Republican era in 1920, and was followed by Presidents Coolidge and Hoover.
  • A Republican from Ohio, President Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher.
  • Harding departed from the progressive movement that had dominated Congress since President Theodore Roosevelt.
  • In August 1923, President Harding died in office and was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge.
  • Describe the new directions taken by Harding and Coolidge away from the Progressive policies of their predecessors