Born: November 2, 1865 in Corsica, Ohio... First United States senator to be elected president... An air of scandal and corruption infuses the legacy of the Harding administration. His election, ...

Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. The life of Warren G. Harding rhymes with the presidential politics of our time. Harding died a hundred years ago this week — Aug. 2, 1923.

It was 100 years ago today – August 2, 1923 – when President Warren G. Harding suddenly died. He was in San Francisco, on the tail end of a cross-country promotional tour that had taken him as far as ...

The Warren G. Harding Memorial, resembling a circular Greek temple, was built in Marion, Ohio in 1927 for $977,821. Harding's career included owning and successfully running the Marion Star newspaper.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Aug. 2, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Aug. 2, 1923, the 29th president of the United ...