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Warren G Harding
29th President of the United States

Warren G. Harding
1921 - 1923



Vice President: Calvin Coolidge (1921-23)
Born: November 2, 1865, near Corsica (now Blooming Grove), Ohio
Died: August 2, 1923, in San Francisco, California
Career/Occupation: Editor and Publisher
Religion: Baptist
Education: Graduated from Ohio Central College (1882)
Political Party: Republican
Nickname(s): none


Other Government Positions:

• Member of Ohio State Senate, 1900-04 
• Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio, 1904-06 
• United States Senator, 1915-21

Presidential Salary: $75,000

Presidential Firsts:

First president to be elected while being a sitting U.S. senator.

Harding was serving as a senator from Ohio when elected. He resigned his position as senator and was replaced by Frank B. Willis.

The first president to have been a lieutenant governor. He served as lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1906.

The first president elected after women gained the right to vote.

First president to ride to and from his inauguration in an automobile.

The inauguration of Harding took place in 1921.

First president to learn to drive a car.

First president to visit Canada while in office.

The first president to be a Baptist.

The first president to have had a director of the Office of Management and Budget.

First president to serve as temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention.

The first president to have been the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention.

The first president to be elected on his birthday.

He was elected on November 2, 1920, his 55th birthday.

First president to predecease his father. George Tryon Harding died in 1928, five years after his son.

The first president to appear on a radio broadcast, over navy radio station NOF in Anacostia, D.C.