harding administration scandal

Warren G. Harding’s was the 29th president of the United States in 1921. Harry Daughtery promoted Harding for the 1920 nomination because he “looked like a president”. In 1924 everybody started thinking differently about him. He was named the worst president that had ever served. The life of Warren G. Harding, President Harding’s life was difficult for him as he became president in 1921 and started the Teapot Dome Scandal.

Warren G. Harding was born in 1865; he became president of the United States in 1921. President Harding was the son of two doctors, President Harding’s father George and Mother Phoebe. President Harding had four sisters and one brother. Harding enjoyed an idyllic American childhood, growing up in a small town, attending a one-room school house, enjoying summers at the local creek and performing in the village band. All of these experiences later helped promote his political career to become President of the United States in 1921 on the date of his birthday on November 2nd . At age of just four-teen years old, President Harding attended Ohio Central College, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. After graduation in 1882, he taught in a country school and sold insurance. Under President Harding's control, the paper writing’s struggled for a time, but later prospered, due in part to Harding's good-natured manner and strong sense of community. In 1891 President Harding married Florence Kling de Wolfe, a wealthy divorcée with a keen business eye and ample financial resources. She also helped the paper to prosper. Harding avoided printing stories critical of others and shared company profits with employees. Around 1898 Harding started to pursue a political career urged by...

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...The scandal damaged the public reputation of the Harding administration, which was already severely diminished by its poor handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and the President's veto of the Bonus Bill in 1922.

The Teapot Dome Scandal was the most famous scandal and ruined President Harding’s reputation. The Scandal was a bribery, Senator from New Mexico and Harding’s friend was convicted of taking the bribes from oil executives. It occurred because the federal government inserted itself in economic matters. The Scandal was all about money and elections it did not reach President Harding personal but it ruined his reputation greatly

In Warren G. Harding life as a president, he was declared the worst president ever to serve because of the most famous Teapot Dome Scandal. The Scandal did not reach him personally but it still ruined his reputation greatly.