But Harding also caught a break: the one Republican whom convention delegates might have turned to out of nostalgia, not to mention the man’s charisma, was long gone by the summer of 1920 ...

In 1920, a Washington, D.C. astrologer and clairvoyant named Madame Marcia Champney predicted that then-Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding would win the presidency, but die a "sudden, violent or ...

Harding promised a return to normalcy in 1920 as the nation recovered from World War I and the global influenza pandemic. Cox enlisted a young Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a running mate, ...

Warren Harding was elected in 1920 with 60% of the popular vote -- which stood as the highest in history until 1964. A souvenir potato was gifted to President Harding in Idaho Falls in 1923.

Harding became the first incumbent senator to be elected president. ... Warren G. Harding on his campaign tour in 1920 on the speakers platform at the Minnesota State Fair.

On this day in 1920, Sen. Warren G. Harding won the Republican presidential nomination. He had entered the Senate in 1915 after serving as a member of the Ohio state Senate and as the state’s ...

Elected president in 1920, Harding campaigned to put a keel beneath a nation buffeted by world war as well as the long and deadly 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. But finding the language for this ...

Warren G. Harding got elected partly by women exercising voting rights for the first time. They didn’t know about the affair that his party paid to cover up—or about his second mistress.

And when, at the 1920 National Republican Convention, the hot and exhausted delegates looked for someone who could win the presidency and unite a deadlocked party, they picked Harding. “Everyone ...

Harding, born in 1865, grew up in rural Marion County and started college at age 14. When he was 19, he and two friends purchased the failing Marion Star for either $300 or $450, depending on who ...