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3 unusual facts about Abner C. Harding


Abner C. Harding

However, he was not a candidate for reelection in 1868 after serving in the 40th Congress, and later engaged in banking and railroad building.

During the 39th Congress, he served as Chairman of the Committee on the Militia.

Monmouth, Illinois

Abner C. Harding, Civil War General and Republican Congressman, lived in Monmouth and is buried in Monmouth Cemetery.


Abby Scott Baker

Baker maintained an intense travel schedule before and during the campaign season for the 1920 presidential election, shuttling between the campaign headquarters of Warren G. Harding in Ohio and James M. Cox in Tennessee, building close relationships with both candidates.

Adolfo Camarillo

Many people of note have ridden on Camarillo White Horses including Governor Ronald Reagan, President Warren G. Harding, 1946 Nobel Peace Prize recipient John Mott, as well as movie stars Leo Carrillo and Steven Ford (son of President Gerald Ford).

Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr.

On June 6, 1921, Hoehling was nominated by President Warren G. Harding to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia vacated by Ashley Mulgrave Gould.

Ben W. Hooper

Hooper served as a member of the U.S. Railroad Labor Board (RLB) during the administration of President Warren G. Harding in the early 1920s, and as chairman of the RLB was a central figure in the 1922 Railroad Shopmen's Strike.

Brightest and Best

It can be sung to a number of tunes, including "Morning Star" by James P. Harding and "Epiphany" by Joseph Thrupp.

Charles E. Sawyer

Dr. Sawyer’s relationship with the family of Warren G. Harding’s parents began when Sawyer stepped forward to save the reputation of Harding’s mother, Dr. Phoebe Dickerson Harding.

C. E. Sawyer (January 24, 1860 – September 23, 1924), was a homeopathic physician who is blamed for giving a false diagnosis of U.S. President Warren G. Harding that led to Harding's premature death.

Clark Howell

Even though Howell was a lifelong Democrat, President Warren G. Harding placed him on a special mining commission in 1922 and ten years later President Hoover appointed him to a national transportation commission.

Cluster criticism

The following is an excerpt from a speech titled "Americanism" given by Warren G. Harding in 1920 regarding aid to European nations devastated by World War I. Terms bolded are those a critic might associate with the key term "Old World stabilization" and terms underlined are those a critic might associate with the key term "stabilize America."

Deadfalls and Snares

Deadfalls and Snares - A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps, by A. R. Harding.

Dixie Cornell Gebhardt

Gebhardt developed a possible design for an Iowa flag, and it was submitted to Governor William L. Harding and the Iowa Council on National Defense, along with several other designs.

Elizabeth Ann Blaesing

Elizabeth Ann Britton Harding Blaesing (October 22, 1919 – November 17, 2005) was the alleged illegitimate daughter of Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, and Nan Britton, a native of Marion, Ohio.

Frank T. Hines

Hines served as the administrator of the Veterans Bureau from his appointment by President Harding in 1923 to 1930, then as the first administrator of its successor, the Veteran's Administration, from 1930 to 1945, when President Truman replaced him with Gen. Omar Bradley.

George Dilboy

Dilboy had the distinction of being honored by three U.S. Presidents, Woodrow Wilson, who signed the authorization awarding the Medal of Honor, Warren G. Harding, who brought him back to Arlington National Cemetery and Calvin Coolidge, former Governor of Massachusetts, who presided at his final burial.

Harding Circle Historic District

The circle was named after Warren G. Harding US president at the time the roads were laid out by Owen Burns and John Ringling for their "Ringling Isles" development during the early 1920s.

Inauguration of Warren G. Harding

The event was also attended by Bernice Madigan, a Massachusetts resident who would become one of the oldest people in the world in 2013.

Irrigation Districts and Farm Loans Act

It was proposed and discussed in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1921 to March 4, 1923, during the Sixty-seventh United States Congress meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, during the first two years of Warren Harding's presidency.

Italian Game

T. Harding and G. S. Botterill: The Italian Game (1977), Batsford, ISBN 0-7134-3261-6

J. Mayhew Wainwright

He was appointed by President Warren G. Harding to serve as Assistant Secretary of War from March 14, 1921, to March 4, 1923, when he resigned.

John Penrose

Penrose met the Hon. Dido (Diana) Harding, only daughter of Lord Harding, while both worked at McKinsey.

Joseph William Guyton

In May 1921, President Warren G. Harding placed a presidential wreath on the flag-draped coffin of Private Guyton at a funeral ceremony for over 5,000 American war-dead at the army piers, Hoboken, New Jersey.

Kenneth Harding

Kenneth R. Harding (1914–2007), Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives

Leo C. Young

By 1922, this expanded to broadcasts from Congress, including an address by President Warren G. Harding.

Louis Borno

Embarrassed by media coverage of the war and disappointed at the ineffectiveness of the occupation, U.S. President Warren G. Harding decided in 1922 to improve the level of American administrators and appointed as High Commissioner Major General John H. Russell, Jr..

Minor Michigan infantry units of the American Civil War

The Stanton Guard was organized at Detroit, Michigan in April 1862 by Captain Grover S. Wormer and mustered in on May 10, to serve as guards over General William G. Harding, Washington Barrow and Judge Joseph C. Guild, three Confederate sympathizers from Nashville, TN sent as prisoners to the fort on Mackinac Island.

National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska

The NPRA was created by President Warren G. Harding in 1923 as Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 4 during a time when the United States was converting its Navy to run on oil rather than coal.

Plymouth Notch, Vermont

John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., the father of Calvin Coolidge, was Justice of the Peace in this town and here Coolidge was sworn in as president almost immediately upon the death of his predecessor, Warren G. Harding, who died suddenly in 1923.

Ralph U. Hyde

In August, 1922, he was selected to serve aboard the presidential yacht, the USS Mayflower for two years during the term of President Warren G. Harding, as First Lieutenant, Watch and Division Officer, and Gunnery Officer.

Samuel M. Vauclain

Vauclain was a Republican, and served as a delegate from Pennsylvania's 7th District to the 1920 Republican National Convention, which nominated Warren G. Harding for president.

Stephen E. Harding

Stephen E. Harding (born August 2, 1955) is a British biochemist specialising in biomolecular hydrodynamics.

Stephen S. Harding

He died on February 12, 1891 in Milan, Ripley County, Indiana and was buried in the Greendale Cemetery, Greendale, Indiana.

He then opened a law office in Richmond, Indiana which remained open for six months when he opened one in Versailles, Indiana.

He studied law in the office of William R. Morris in Brookville, Indiana and became licensed to practice law on March 17, 1828.

Steven Bonspille

He and three other chiefs at the time, Crawford Gabriel, Pearl Bonspille and John (sha ko hen the tha) Harding opposed then-Grand Chief James Gabriel (1993-2004).

United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

The first judge to serve only the Middle District of Tennessee was John J. Gore, appointed by Warren G. Harding.

United States presidential inaugural balls

Franklin Pierce, who was mourning the recent death of his son in 1853, Woodrow Wilson, who in 1913 felt that inaugural balls were too expensive, and Warren G. Harding, who in 1921 wanted to set an example of simplicity, all opted to end the custom of inaugural balls.

Walter C. Lindley

On September 20, 1922, Lindley was nominated by President Warren G. Harding to a new seat on the Eastern District of Illinois created by 42 Stat.

Water Resources Collections and Archives

Some highlights include the papers of engineers and attorneys such as Joseph B. Lippincott, Hans Albert Einstein, Frank Adams, Charles Derleth, John S. Eastwood, John D. Galloway, Sidney T. Harding, Walter L. Huber, Edward Hyatt, Joe W. Johnson, Robert Kelley, Bernard Etcheverry, Harvey Oren Banks, Milton N. Nathanson, Luna Leopold and Murrough P. O'Brien, amongst others.


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