This week's famous cousin is my 8th cousin 1x removed Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) the 29th President of the United States.
Here is Warren Gamaliel Harding's Family Search Family Tree short biography:
When President Warren Gamaliel Harding was born on 2 November 1865, in Bloominggrove Township, Richland, Ohio, United States, his father, Dr. George Tryon Harding, was 21 and his mother, Dr. Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson, was 21. He married Florence Mabel Kling on 8 July 1891, in Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1920. He died on 2 August 1923, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States.
The Wikipedia profile for Warren Gamaliel Harding includes this information:
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents while in office. After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including Teapot Dome, as well as an extramarital affair with Nan Britton, which tarnished his reputation.
Harding lived in rural Ohio all his life, except when political service took him elsewhere. As a young man, he bought The Marion Star and built it into a successful newspaper. Harding served in the Ohio State Senate from 1900 to 1904, and was lieutenant governor for two years. He was defeated for governor in 1910, but was elected to the United States Senate in 1914—the state's first direct election for that office. Harding ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1920, but was considered a long shot before the convention. When the leading candidates could not garner a majority, and the convention deadlocked, support for Harding increased, and he was nominated on the tenth ballot. He conducted a front porch campaign, remaining mostly in Marion and allowing people to come to him. He promised a return to normalcy of the pre–World War I period, and defeated Democratic nominee James M. Cox in a landslide to become the first sitting senator elected president.
Harding appointed a number of respected figures to his cabinet, including Andrew Mellon at Treasury, Herbert Hoover at Commerce, and Charles Evans Hughes at the State Department. A major foreign policy achievement came with the Washington Naval Conference of 1921–1922, in which the world's major naval powers agreed on a naval limitations program that lasted a decade. Harding released political prisoners who had been arrested for their opposition to World War I. In 1923, Harding died of a heart attack in San Francisco while on a western tour, and was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge.
Here is the Relative Finder chart showing my relationship to Warren Gamaliel Harding:
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