Known as “The Duchess,” Florence Mabel Kling Harding served as First Lady from 1921 to 1923 as the wife of President Warren G. Harding. President Warren G. Harding fathered an illegitimate daughter at the Jersey Shore, kept it a secret from the nation. Warren Harding is a poor model for Mitt Romney to emulate, but his message of a return to normalcy strikes a chord. The landslide election victory of Harding and Coolidge over James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt, brought a major change for Grace Coolidge. It has been slightly more than 10 years since the attacks of 9/11. Warren G. Harding of Marion, Ohio was one of the eight U.S. Presidents to come from this state. Share; ... by his wife. Harding's speech in Capitol Park was notable because it was the first speech delivered by a sitting president in the South … Her husband has been in politics all these years (1906-1920) while she had been on the periphery. Editor Harding had once had an affair with the wife of one of the town’s leading merchants. A blue triangle contains a picture of the Harding Tomb. This red, white and blue flag features the name of the county in large letters. The 1921 Presidential visit to Birmingham was made by Warren G. Harding on October 26, 1921 on the occasion of the city's semicentennial. Years later when President-elect Harding returned to a Marion decked with flags and bunting, there was one large store front that remained uncompromisingly blank among the red, white, and blue decorations. Wrigley’s Mansions Across America The chewing-gum tycoon’s portfolio included grand estates, ranches and a string of summer cottages—properties that today would be worth tens of … Sex, scandal and death in the White House. My wife is a city girl from LA and moved to Mariposa in 1988. ... President Warren Harding's funeral train passes through Omaha in August 1923. Marion County was established in 1820. Only when Calvin was mayor of Northampton, was she part of the political equation. It was a great place to grown up. This president kept his mistress & child in Asbury Park. Memories of watching the fire fall from my front yard in the Ahwahnee meadow, learning to rock climb from now famous Royal Robbins and Warren Harding. Now things would change. President Woodrow Wilson and his wife, Edith Wilson, in Omaha in October 1916. I was born and raised in Yosemite and have wonderful memories to share about growing up there.