Season 2, Episode 29-Warren Harding and Marion

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Season 2, Episode 29: Warren Harding and Marion

Heading back to the Buckeye State for the final Ohio President, Warren Harding, 29th President, and his home in Marion! Few men had less business being President (a fact he admitted himself)! Learn about this unique rise to office; his election and star-crossed Presidency; his wife, Florence; as well as his home!

Be sure to listen to Warren Harding’s “Visiting the Presidents” Episode from Season 1, “Warren Harding and Blooming Grove” on his birthplace!

Also, be sure to listen to Warren Harding’s “Visiting the Presidents” Episode from Season 3, “Warren Harding’s Tomb” on his gravesite!

Harding Presidential Sites official site.

Warren Harding Home from National Park Service.

Warren Harding Home and Presidential Sites.

For Dr. Joe Faykosh’s Master’s Thesis on the 1920 Presidential Election, “The Front Porch of the American People: James Cox and the Presidential Election of 1920.”

From My June 2021 Visit!

Warren Harding Home
In front of the house
Giving my best front porch speech
With Matt!
The Warren G. Harding Home!

From My June 2016 Visit!

My first visit!
The Harding Home
Apparently a theme.
The Harding Home!
Interior photos of Warren Harding home: Parlor, Dining Room, and Harding’s Bedroom, from National Park Service and Ohio Magazine.
Postcard of the Harding library with parlor behind
Photos from Homes of the Presidents
Warren and Florence on their front porch
Historical images of the Marion home
President Harding’s Home
White House Portraits of Florence and Warren Harding

Warren G. Harding Home: 380 Mount Vernon Avenue, Marion, Ohio.

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Recommended Reading for Warren Harding

Robert K. Murray, The Harding Era: Warren G. Harding and His Administration.
Andrew Sinclair, The Available Man: The Life Behind the Masks of Warren Gamaliel Harding.
Randolph Downes, The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1865-1920.
Jim Yoakum, The Bloviator: Sex, Drugs, Fraud, Suicide, Murder, Scandal, Adultery, Quackery, Corruption, Superstition and President Warren G. Harding

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