Warren G. Harding — 29th President of the United States
29th President of the United States, Republican
Warren G. Harding
Term: Mar 4, 1921 – Aug 2, 1923
Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) was the twenty-ninth president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death on August 2, 1923. He won the 1920 election by a landslide, campaigning on a "return to normalcy" after World War I. His administration is associated with the Teapot Dome scandal, in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted bribes in exchange for leasing federal oil reserves — making Fall the first U.S. cabinet member to be convicted of a crime committed while in office. Harding died in office in San Francisco; he was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge.
“My most reverent prayer for America is for industrial peace, with its rewards, widely and generally distributed, amid the inspirations of equal opportunity.”