Warren G. Harding ~ November 2, 1865 - August 2, 1923

29th President 1921 - 1923 

Warren G. Harding sites visited:

Finding Harding's birth site in Blooming Grove, Ohio, was a little tricky, but we finally located the place.

The home where Harding lived with his wife, Florence, in Marion from 1891-1921 was closed for renovation when we were there.

There are plans to build a Presidential Center and Museum adjacent to the house.

The Harding gravesite in Marion was easy to spot.

Here are a couple of artifacts from a 2023 exhibit at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Rapid City, South Dakota, City of Presidents statue:

Harding has a bust in the McKinley Birthplace Memorial.

Of the eight presidents who died in office, Harding takes his place with the four who died in office but were not assassinated. Although his presidency was brief, he was the first president to visit Alaska and Canada and the first to have his campaign covered by newsreel footage. Some of his other 'firsts' include being the first president born after the Civil War, the first to own and install a radio in the White House, and he was the first president to ride to and from his inauguration in a car.

Harding is one of seven presidents to have been alive during three presidential assassinations (Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley). 

His reputation was later marred by a little thing called the Teapot Dome scandal along with other allegations but he rests now with his wife in this grandiose setting back in his home town.

"We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation."