Birth: Blooming Grove, Ohio, November 2, 1865

Ancestry: English and Scotch-Irish

Father: George Tryon Harding

Mother: Phoebe Dickerson Harding

Brothers: Charles Alexander Harding (1874-1878); George Tryon Harding (1878-1934)

Sisters: Charity Malvina Harding (1867-1951); Mary Clarissa Harding (1868-1913); Eleanor Priscilla Harding (1872-1878); Abigail Victoria Harding (1875-1935); Phoebe Caroline Harding (1879-1951)

Religious Affiliation: Baptist

Education: Local Schools; attended Ohio Central College

Occupation Before Presidency: Newspaper Editor

Prepresidential Offices: Member of Ohio Senate; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio; United States Senator

Inauguration Age: 55

Death: San Francisco, California, August 2, 1923

Place of Burial: Hillside Cemetery, Marion, Ohio

Inauguration: March 4, 1921; the Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Vice President: Calvin Coolidge

Secretary of State: Charles Evans Hughs

Secretary of the Treasury: Andrew W. Mellon

Secretary of War: John W. Weeks

Attorney General: Harry M. Daugherty

Postmaster General: Will H. Hays; Hubert Work (from March 4, 1922); Harry S. New (from March 5, 1923)

Secretary of the Navy: Edwin Denby

Secretary of the Interior: Albert B. Fall; Hubert Work (from March 5, 1923)

Secretary of Agriculture: Henry C. Wallace

Secretary of Commerce: Herbert C. Hoover

Secretary of Labor: James J. Davis

Supreme Court Appointments: William H. Taft, Chief Justice (1921); George Sutherland (1922); Pierce Butler (1922); Edward T. Sanford (1923)

Congress #67 (April 11, 1921-March 3, 1923):

Senate: 59 Republicans; 37 Democrats

House: 300 Republicans; 132 Democrats; 1 Other

Congress #68 (December 3, 1923-March 3, 1925):

Senate: 51 Republicans; 43 Democrats; 2 Others

House: 225 Republicans; 207 Democrats; 3 Others