Warren g harding president accomplishments
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Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Warren Harding’s Early Years
Warren Gamaliel Harding was born on November 2, 1865, on a farm in the small Ohio community of Corsica (present-day Blooming Grove).
Warren g harding president accomplishments
He was the oldest of eight children of George Harding (1843-1928), a farmer who later became a doctor and part-owner of a local newspaper, and Phoebe Dickerson Harding (1843-1910), a midwife.
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In 1923, as part of a cross-country tour, Harding became the first American president to visit Alaska, which had been a territory since 1912 and would achieve statehood in 1959.
Harding graduated from Ohio Central College (now defunct) in 1882 and moved to Marion, Ohio, where he eventually found work as a newspaper reporter.
In 1884, he and several partners purchased a small, struggling newspaper, the Marion Star.
In 1891, Harding married Florence Kling De Wolfe (1860-1924), a Marion native with one son from a previous relationship. The Hardings had no children together, and