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16-07-2015, 08:32

Harding Administration (March 4, 1921-August 2, 1923)

Vice President: Calvin Coolidge Secretary of State: Charles Evans Hughes Secretary of the Treasury: Andrew W. Mellon Secretary of War: John W. Weeks Attorney General: Harry M. Daugherty Postmaster General: William H. Hays; Hubert Work; Harry S. New (from March 1923)

Secretary of the Navy: Edwin Denby Secretary of the Interior: Albert B. Fall;

Hubert Work (from March 1923)

Secretary of Agriculture: Henry C. Wallace Secretary of Commerce: Herbert C. Hoover Secretary of Labor: James J. Davis Supreme Court Appointments: William Howard Taft, Chief Justice (1921); George Sutherland (1922); Pierce Butler (1922); Edward T. Sanford (1923)

Family Facts

Father: George Tyron Harding (1844-1928)

Mother: Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson Harding (1843-1910)

Wife: Florence Kling De Wolfe (1860-1924)

Marriage: July 8, 1891

Children: Harding allegedly had a child born out of wedlock, Elizabeth Ann Christian (1919-?), with Nan Britton.

Unusual Facts

Warren Harding was the first politician to move directly from the U. S. Senate to the White House.

He was the first president to show motion pictures at the White House.

His image was transmitted as the first radio picture.

His secretary of the interior, Albert Fall, was the first cabinet officer convicted of a crime and sent to prison.



 

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