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Warren G. Harding





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Warren G. Harding was born November 2, 1865 and died August 2, 1923. He was a Republican. He was the 29th president and was in office from January 11, 1904 to January 8, 1906. While Harding was in office he Signed the first federal child welfare program and dealt with striking mining and railroad workers in the 1921 Blair Mountain miner war and Great Railroad Strike of 1922. Cut the unemployment rate by half through higher tariffs, lower taxes, and an expansion of the tax base. Advocated an anti-lynching bill to curb violence against African-Americans although it failed to pass Congress. Established the Veterans Bureau to handle veterans' medical and job needs and the Bureau of the Budget to prepare the US federal budget. Plagued by scandal throughout his tenure, most notably the Teapot Dome scandal involving government acceptance of bribes from oil companies. The Foreign policy accomplishments of President Harding were: Spurned the League of Nations and signed a separate peace treaty with Germany and Austria after WWI There was one scandal involving Harding and that was 2 years before Harding ran for president, he had a child with a young woman from his home town out of wedlock. At 7:20 p.m. on the evening of Aug. 2, 1923, a terrible event of national importance occurred in the presidential suite of San Francisco’s Palace Hotel. President Warren G. Harding’s wife, Florence, was reading the “Saturday Evening Post” to him. The article in question was about Mr. Harding and appeared to please him because he was last heard to utter, “That’s good, go on.” Immediately thereafter, he shuddered and dropped dead onto his bed. He had long suffered from an overly nervous condition then known as **neurasthenia**. Some of his doctors warned Harding, while he was still in the U.S. Senate, that his multiple amorous affairs might physically injure his delicate and enlarged heart. Since at least 1918, Harding suffered from shortness of breath, bouts of chest pain, and difficulty sleeping unless his head was propped up on several pillows, all signs of congestive heart disease. Harding d ied of Heart Attack August 2, 1923.

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