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1841 1921 |
Of the 11 U.S. presidents serving between 1841 and 1921, seven of them were born in Ohio.The presidents and their places of birth were: Ulysses S. Grant, Point Pleasant; Rutherford B. Hayes, Delaware; James A. Garfield, Orange; Benjamin Harrison, North Bend; William McKinley, Niles; William H. Taft, Cincinnati; Warren G. Harding, Morrow County. These were the only Ohio-born presidents. Three of them, Garfield, McKinley and Harding died in office. Four of the seven presidents hailing from Ohio died while in office. They were William Henry Harrison, the 9th president, who died one month after his inauguration in 1841; the 20th president, James Garfield, who was assassinated in 1881; William McKinley, the 25th president, who was assassinated in 1901; and Warren G. Harding, who died suddenly in 1923. Links: USA, Ohio, GarfieldJ, HarrisonB, McKinleyW, TaftW, HardingW, HayesR, HarrisonW 
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1865 Nov 2 |
Warren Gamaliel Harding, the 29th president of the United States (1921-1923), was born near Corsica, Ohio. Links: USA, Ohio, HardingW
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1920 Jun 12 |
Republicans in Chicago nominated Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge, governor of Massachusetts, for vice president. Links: USA, Massachusetts, HardingW, CoolidgeC
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1920 Nov 2 |
The first radio broadcast of presidential elections in the United States were made by radio. Westinghouse had built radio station KDKA on its factory roof in Pittsburgh and was among the first to broadcast returns from the Harding-Cox presidential election. 8MK, the first US station owned by a newspaper (the Detroit News), also broadcast the election returns. Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Radio, Michigan, Journalism, HardingW
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1921 Jun 10 |
Pres. Warren G. Harding signed "The General Accounting Act of 1921." The Budget and Accounting Act required the president to submit the budget to Congress for each fiscal year which is the 12-month period beginning on October 1 and ending on September 30 of the next calendar year. The act was approved by Harding to provide a national budget system and an independent audit of government accounts. Charles Dawes (1865-1951) served as the first head of the agency, which later became the Office of management and Budget (OMB). Links: USA, HardingW
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1922 Feb 18 |
Pres. Harding signed the Capper-Volstead Act. It exempted farmers from federal antitrust laws permitting them to share prices and orchestrate supply. Links: USA, Food, HardingW, Agriculture
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1922 Sep 21 |
The US passed a tariff act. The Fordney-McCumber Tariff bill (named after Joseph Fordney, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Porter McCumber, chair of the Senate Finance Committee) was signed by President Warren Harding. In the end, the tariff law raised the average American ad valorem tariff rate to 38 percent. Links: USA, HardingW
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1923 |
US Pres. Warren Harding authorized a 22-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve as an emergency oil supply for the US Navy near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. In 2015 ConocoPhillips became the first company to draw from the reserve. Links: USA, Oil, Alaska, HardingW
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