Warren G. Harding

Trivia

• Norman Thomas, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and Socialist Party candidate for President, childhood job was as a newsboy for Harding's Marion Daily Star where he was supervised by Florence Harding.
• The 1920 Presidential election was the only Presidential election in which the two major party nominees were office holders from the same state (Harding, Ohio Senator/Cox Ohio Governor), and had the same profession (Newspaper Publishers - Harding in Marion Ohio and Cox in Dayton, Ohio).
• Harding County, New Mexico is named in his honor.
• President Harding and his wife both appear in fictional form as supporting characters in the novel Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold. Thomas Carter was a famous stage magician in the early part of the 1900's, and the book offers a fascinating alternate explaination for the death of Warren Harding.