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John Lloyd Aldwell (1866-1935) —
also known as J. Lloyd Aldwell —
of Port Angeles, Clallam
County, Wash.
Born in Canada,
August
8, 1866.
Republican. Real
estate and insurance
business; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Washington, 1928.
English ancestry.
Died November
24, 1935 (age 69 years, 108
days).
Interment at Ocean
View Cemetery, Port Angeles, Wash.
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Richard Chilcott (1855-1917) —
of Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island, Kitsap
County, Wash.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in England,
May
15, 1855.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; sea
captain; shipbroker;
stevedoring
business; Consul
for Central America in Seattle,
Wash., 1898; Consul
for Honduras in Seattle,
Wash., 1899-1903; Consul
for Nicaragua in Seattle,
Wash., 1899-1903.
English and Irish
ancestry.
Died, from Bright's
disease, heart
delatation, and arteriosclerosis,
in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., August
31, 1917 (age 62 years, 108
days).
Cremated.
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Ulysses Simon Fitzpatrick (1887-1938) —
also known as Ulysses S. Fitzpatrick —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Orange, Orange
County, Calif., September
2, 1887.
Lawyer;
U.S. Vice Consul in San Jose, 1916-19.
Manx and German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in California, January
12, 1938 (age 50 years, 132
days).
Interment at Santa Ana Cemetery, Santa Ana, Calif.
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Richard Dickerson Gholson (1802-1861) —
Born in Culpeper, Culpeper
County, Va., January
3, 1802.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1851-55; Governor
of Washington Territory, 1859-61.
English and Cherokee
Indian ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Tennessee, August
28, 1861 (age 59 years, 237
days).
Interment somewhere
in Troy, Tenn.
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Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) —
also known as Warren G. Harding —
of Marion, Marion
County, Ohio.
Born in Blooming Grove, Morrow
County, Ohio, November
2, 1865.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of Ohio
state senate 13th District, 1901-03; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1904-06; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1904
(alternate), 1912,
1916
(Temporary
Chair; Permanent
Chair; speaker);
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1910; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1915-21; President
of the United States, 1921-23; died in office 1923.
Baptist.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Knights
of Pythias; Phi
Alpha Delta.
First
president ever to have his voice broadcast on the radio, June 14,
1922.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, in a room at the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., August
2, 1923 (age 57 years, 273
days). The claim that he was poisoned by his wife is not accepted
by historians.
Originally entombed at Marion
Cemetery, Marion, Ohio; reinterment in 1927 at Harding
Memorial Park, Marion, Ohio; memorial monument (now gone) at Woodland Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Phoebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) Harding and George Tryon Harding;
married, July 8,
1891, to Florence
Harding. |
| | | Harding County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Harding High
School, in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding High
School, in Warren,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding Middle
School, in Frankford,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — The community
of Harding
Township, New Jersey (created 1922) is named for
him. — Warren Street,
G Street,
and Harding Street
(now Boardwalk), in Ketchikan,
Alaska, were all named for
him. — Harding Mountain,
in Chelan
County, Washington, is named for
him. — Mount
Harding, in Skagway,
Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "Remember there are two
sides to every question. Get both." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1920): "Back to
normalcy with Harding." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Warren G. Harding: Francis
Russell, The
Shadow of Blooming Grove : Warren G. Harding In His
Times — Robert K. Murray, The
Harding Era : Warren G. Harding and His
Administration — Eugene P. Trani & David L. Wilson, The
Presidency of Warren G. Harding — Harry M. Daugherty,
Inside
Story of the Harding Tragedy — Charles L. Mee, The
Ohio Gang : The World of Warren G. Harding — John W.
Dean, Warren
G. Harding — Robert H. Ferrell, The
Strange Deaths of President Harding — Russell Roberts,
Warren
G. Harding (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Warren G. Harding:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Edwin Hughes (1855-1909) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in England,
1855.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; steamship
agent; Honorary
Consul for Guatemala in Seattle,
Wash., 1897-1902.
English ancestry.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., September
6, 1909 (age about 54
years).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Alexander Wild Thornely (1845-1908) —
also known as Alexander W. Thornely; John Alexander Wylde
Thornely —
of La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis.; Long Prairie, Todd
County, Minn.; Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales,
March, 1845.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; bookkeeper;
feed
and grain
business; customs
broker; secretary, Crescent Coal
Company; Vice-Consul
for Mexico in Tacoma,
Wash., 1906-08.
English ancestry.
Shot
in the head by two robbers, and died four
days later in Fannie Paddock Hospital,
Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash., January
24, 1908 (age 62 years, 0
days).
Interment at Tacoma
Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Sarah (Roberts) Thornely and Robert Thornely; married, September
6, 1881, to Louise Lavinia Hinkley. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Tacoma News Tribune,
January 21, 1908 |
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