#29 Warren G. Harding- Return to Normalcy

#29 Warren G. Harding- Return to Normalcy

 Harding was a newspaper editor that bought the Marion Star and built it up into a successful newspaper. He was then elected to the Ohio Senate (1899-1903), followed by a successful run at Lieutenant Governor (1904-1906). He was defeated in his run for Governor (1910) but was elected to the Senate eventually (1915-1921).

1921;

• Harding becomes the 29th President of the U.S. at the age of 55. Calvin Coolidge becomes the VP
• World War I is formally ended by joint resolution
• The Emergency Quota Act is passed after a massive migration of European immigrants into the US at the end of WWI
• The Teapot Dome Scandal erupts surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall
• Harding opposes entry into the League of Nations
• Budget and Accounting Act is passed, creating the Bureau of the Budget and housing it within the Department of Treasury.
• Washington Armament Conference, an International conference is called by the U.S. to limit the naval arms race and devise security agreements in the Pacific Area
• Shepperd-Towner Act passes, funding maternity and infant health care
• War protester and union leader Eugene V. Debs is pardoned
• Tomb of the unknown soldier is dedicated as a memorial to all American soldiers and sailors that lost their lives. An unknown serviceman is buried.

TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER

1922;

• The Capper-Volstead Act passes due to the depression of agricultural prices following World War I
• Lincoln Memorial is dedicated

LINCOLN MEMORIAL DEDICATION

1923;

Harding dies of a heart attack in San Francisco, California, while he was on a speaking tour.

Famous quotes;

“America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration;… not surgery but serenity.”  

“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.” 

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends… They’re the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!”