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George Burnham (1868-1939) —
of Jackson, Jackson
County, Minn.; Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.; San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.; Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in London, England,
December
28, 1868.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; retail shoe
business; real estate
business; banker; U.S.
Representative from California 20th District, 1933-37; delegate
to Republican National Convention from California, 1936.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights Templar.
Died in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., June 28,
1939 (age 70 years, 182
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Greenwood
Memorial Park, San Diego, Calif.
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Hugh Milton Caldwell (b. 1881) —
also known as Hugh M. Caldwell —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., June 7,
1881.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1920-22.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Sigma Kappa; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Knights Templar; Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas M. Caldwell and Jane (Kearsley) Caldwell; married, October
21, 1903, to Sarah Smith Howard. |
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Beverly Waugh Coiner (b. 1857) —
also known as Beverly W. Coiner —
of Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa; Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Leon, Decatur
County, Iowa, December
20, 1857.
Republican. Lawyer;
mayor of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, 1882-84; Pierce
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1887-89, 1895-96; major in the U.S.
Army during the Spanish-American War; Washington
Republican state chair, 1910-12; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Washington, 1912-13.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights Templar.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Erasmus Tully Coiner and Mary E. (Young) Coiner; married, November
1, 1880, to Ida Hare. |
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Richard William Condon (b. 1867) —
also known as Richard W. Condon —
of Port Gamble, Kitsap
County, Wash.
Born in Port Gamble, Kitsap
County, Wash., September
19, 1867.
Republican. Member of Washington
state senate, 1905-09, 1925-30; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Washington, 1912,
1920,
1924,
1940
(alternate); member of Republican
National Committee from Washington, 1928-32.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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George Fletcher Cotterill (1865-1958) —
also known as George F. Cotterill —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Oxford, England,
November
18, 1865.
Democrat. Engineer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1902 (at-large), 1916 (1st
District); member of Washington
state senate, 1907-11; mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1912-14; defeated, 1900; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1920; commissioner, Port of Seattle,
1922-34.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights Templar; Shriners.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., October
13, 1958 (age 92 years, 329
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Lindley Hoag Hadley (1861-1948) —
also known as Lindley H. Hadley —
of Bellingham, Whatcom
County, Wash.
Born near Sylvania, Parke
County, Ind., June 19,
1861.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Washington 2nd District, 1915-33; defeated,
1932.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Knights Templar.
Died in Wallingford, New Haven
County, Conn., November
4, 1948 (age 87 years, 138
days).
Interment at St.
Matthew's Cemetery, Wilton, Conn.
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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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Albert Johnson (1869-1957) —
of Hoquiam, Grays
Harbor County, Wash.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., March 5,
1869.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1913-33 (2nd District 1913-15,
3rd District 1915-33); defeated, 1932.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Knights Templar.
Died in the American Lake veterans hospital,
Fort Lewis, Pierce
County, Wash., January
17, 1957 (age 87 years, 318
days).
Interment at Sunset
Memorial Park, Hoquiam, Wash.
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John Stafford McMillin (1855-1936) —
also known as John S. McMillin —
of Roche Harbor, San Juan
County, Wash.
Born near Sugar Grove, Harrison
County, Ind., October
28, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Washington, 1924,
1932.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Chi; Freemasons;
Knights Templar; Shriners.
Died November
3, 1936 (age 81 years, 6
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Afterglow
Vista Mausoleum, Roche Harbor, Wash.
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Henry Floyd Samuels (1869-1948) —
also known as H. F. Samuels —
of Wallace, Shoshone
County, Idaho.
Born in Washington
County, Miss., April 4,
1869.
Lawyer;
Shoshone
County Attorney, 1898-1900; developed zinc, lead and silver mining in
Idaho; built the Samuels Hotel in
1907; banker;
candidate for Governor of
Idaho, 1918 (Democratic), 1922 (Progressive), 1924 (Progressive);
Progressive candidate for U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1926.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in 1948
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Sequim
View Cemetery, Near Sequim, Clallam County, Wash.
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Monrad Charles Wallgren (1891-1961) —
also known as Monrad C. Wallgren; Mon C.
Wallgren —
of Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash.
Born in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, April
17, 1891.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; jeweler;
optician;
U.S.
Representative from Washington 2nd District, 1933-40; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1940-45; Governor of
Washington, 1945-49; chair, Federal Power Commission, 1950-51.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Freemasons;
Knights Templar; Elks; Eagles;
Rotary.
Died, from injuries suffered in an automobile
accident, in Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash., September
18, 1961 (age 70 years, 154
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Everett, Wash.
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