Warren Gamaliel Harding

Attended the public schools and Ohio Central College at Iberia; studied law for a short time; taught school; engaged in the insurance business; became editor and publisher of the Marion Star in 1884; member, State senate (1899-1903); lieutenant governor of Ohio (1904-1905); unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1910; elected as a Republican to the Senate and served from 4 Mar 1915, until his resignation, effective 13 Jan 1921, having been elected President; chairman, Committee on the Philippines (66th Congress); elected President of the United States on the Republican ticket (1920); promoted establishment by Congress of a budget system for the federal government, enacted highly protective Fordney-McCumber Tariff; revised wartime taxes; approved an act restricting immigration; headed loosely selected and largely unsupervised Cabinet; set out (20 Jun 1923) on a transcontinental tour ("Voyage of Understanding"); arrived in San Francisco in a state of exhaustion and died during the night of 2 Aug 1923.