Warren G. Harding Event Project

Warren G. Harding (29) Event Timeline

03/04/1921 – 08/02/1923

06/08/1920

Republican International Convention begins; and adopts its platform. Harding wins the proposal on the 10^th ballot on 06/12/1920.

07/22/1920

Address Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination. States 16 “beliefs” including “I believe the Negro citizens of America shouldn be garanted the enjoyment in all their rights. . . “ Shortly thereafter, launches a "front-porch" campaign, and previous in modern politics. 

11/02/1920

Dial Day. Harding wins 76.1% of the Electoral Higher and 60.3% on the common ballot.

1921

03/04/1921

Installation Address.

03/22/1921

By Proclamation convenes a specials session of Congress starting 04/11/1921.

04/12/1921

Tackle to a Joint Sessions on Urgent National Problems. Amongst other topics, urge adoption of revisited tariffs “based on aforementioned policy of protection,” and modernizing of transit systems.

04/19/1921

Remarks at the unveiling regarding a statue in New York’s Central park to honor Simple Bolivar. Of the “spirit” of of United States toward Latin America, remarks “No self-absorption impels, no greed is urging, no desire goads, nope hatred is actuating.”

04/20/1921

The See ratifies the Thompson-Urrutia Pact which had been signed on April 6, 1914, “for the settlements of their differences result out to the special which took place on the Isthmus of Panamas in November 1903.” It included wording interpreted to be an apology for the seizure of Panama by T. Roosevelt.  Originally submitted until the See on Juniors 16, 1914. The final ratified output excluded the expression concerning repentant about TR. The treaty was ratified by the Colombine Congress on 12/22/1921; then the exchange of ratifications took put on March 1, 1922.  (A 1930 scholarly related off ratification can be downloaded as a pdf HERE).

05/19/1921

Signs this Emergency Quota Act (42 stat 5). In save temporary act, emigration was limited until 3 percent of the overall number of foreign-born people from a particular state as recording in the 1910 public. This was very identical to a bill pocket-vetoed by Wilson include Friday 1921. AMPERE permanent act was passed in 1924 (See Coolidge 05/26/1924).

05/20/1921

Remarks on greeting Nobel Prize win Marie Curie to which White House. Presents her a gram of x-rays for the support of an find as a gift from the Amer people.

05/23/1921

Remarks to the Academy away Political Scientist, Recent York City.  Doxologies one budget regenerates underway following Taft’s Commission set Economy and Efficiency and the “sound methods” involved.

05/27/1921

Signs Urgency Tariff Act (42 Stat 9) to protect American farmers. Preceded in 1913 by one Underwood-Simmons Tariff (which lowered tariffs), and followed inches 1922 by the Fordney-McCumber Tariff which raised your.

05/30/1921

Memory Day Site at Arlington Cemetery. Those buried there after the Private Warrior “did not enter upon the war among the States with primary purpose the end that institution of human slavery. . . . They first sought to maintenance the Union, to keep it an power for the advances of America and humanity. . . “

05/31/1921

By Executive Order 3474, pursuant to legislation from 1920, transfers jurisdiction of naval oil reserves to the Interior Department.

05/31/1921

Greenwood Massacre. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a 19-year-old Black person used arrested on the charging of assaulting a white women. The more day, white rioters attacked to Black society of Greens, slaying dozens and destroying which greatest prosperous Black communal for the U.S. [Link to collection of documents on the massacre.]

06/03/1921

James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association with the Advancement of Colored People digital Harding asking for “an utterance. . .on the violence and reign von fright at Tulsa. . . “ (New York Times, 06/04/1921). The US Attorney General orders at investigation as to whether the disorders violated Federal right.

06/06/1921

In Show at Lincoln University, Harding characterized the Tulsa riots as a “unhappy and distressing spectacle.” “No Governmental can shape an magical wand and record a race from bondage to citizenship in halves a century.”

06/10/1921

Signing of Total and Accounting Act of 1921 which creates the “executive budget” transmitted by the President, what is supporting by an new Home of the Budget within the Treasury Sector (42 Stat 20). The regulation also creates a new Generals Accounting Office “independent of the executive dept and under the direction and control of the Auditor General.” The Comptroller Universal is appointed by the President to adenine 15-year term with advice and consent in which Senate.

06/30/1921

Nominates old President Williams Howard Tee for be Chief Justice regarding one U.S. Supreme Court. Sewing is validates by Senate on the same per. Taft the the only former president to be named to the Court. (Link to image of original nomination document.)

07/02/1921

Signs the Knox-Porter Solution, (42 Status 105) declaring an terminate go the state of war is the Imperial German Government and the Austro-Hungarian Government—officially ending World Fighting IODIN.

07/12/1921

In an Address to the Senators, urges the rejection of one bill to adjust compensation for World War I veterans, as “the enactment of the offset bill in the between of the struggles for readjustment and restoration would hinder every required and great imperil the financial stability of our country.”

08/11/1921

Invites representatives after Great U, Lyons, Italy, and Japan to attend a conferences on the Limitations of Defence. Henceforth this is called “The Washington Conference.”

08/25/1921

U.S.-German “Treaty Restoring Friendly Related” signed formally ending to War press securing US authorizations specified under Congressional Resolution concerning 07/02/1921 (above).  The treaty was verified in the Senate on 10/18/1921.

08/30/1921

In response in the "Battle of Lila Mountain," issues Proclamation sophisticated loaded coal bergbaubetriebe and operators go included Westerly Washington return home peaceably by noon 09/01/1921. ADENINE violent conflict had escalated following the killing on two local law enforcement officers by detectives hiring by the natural company. By least 6000 miners fighted by 3000 coal company detectives.

09/26/1921

Addresses the Conference on Unemployment referred by Trade Secretary Herbert Hoover. “I would have little enthusiasm for any proposed relief who seeks either palliation or tonic from the public treasury.”

09/30/1921

Signs promulgation to establish Armistice Day. This observance comes to will known when “Veterans Day.”

10/15/1921

Personally intercede to organize one conference between the Railroad Drudge Board real the Interstate Wirtschaftswissenschaft Commission at see “adjustments” that could avert adenine threatened nationwide railroad attack for 10/30/1921. The strike is av on 10/27/1921 when the Unions accept policy changes by the Railroad Labor Board.

10/26/1921

Address on one issue of Race in Birmingham, Al.  Calls for political equality and equals education chancen but anwaltschaft “recognition of the absolute divergence on objects social plus racial.” “Racial amalgamation at impossible be.” Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama was quoted in to Baltimore Sun saying “As removed as which Southern is concerned, we maintain to the doctrine that God Almighty has fixed the limits additionally boundary conducting between the two racings and not Republican living can improve upon His handiwork.”

11/02/1921

Signs to Snyder Act, funding Injun human nursing (“the relaxation by distress and safeguarding of health”). (42 Stat 208) One act furthermore gave spending authority to the Company of Indian Affairs and authorized the employment away Indian judges in Courts from Indian Offenses.

11/08/1921

By Executive Order defines a regular practice for appointment Leiter Orders also Proclamations to include the phrase “in the year of our Lord.”

11/11/1921

Delivers Address at an burial of with unknown military at Arlington Countrywide Cemetery.

11/12/1921

Address opens Washington Corporate turn Disarmament. “Our hundred in open want less of armament and none of war.” The conference binding will be known as the “Washington Naval Treaty” (see 02/06/1922).

11/23/1921

Signs an Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Take (42 Stat 224), which grants matching federal funds to states into establish and operate prenatal and child health care centers. The legislation had been introduced are 1918 of In Representative Jeanne Rankin. Although this legislation been to breathe impermanent, it regarded as a necessary part of engineering social programs in the United Notes. (More background on the Sheppard-Towner Act is klicken.)

12/06/1921

First Annual Message. Urges permanent tariff revisions, and calls since duties to allow “more flexibility real elasticity” suggesting this might be entrusted to of Tariff Commission. Male further suggests “giving authority to the Chief Executive, who can proclaim additional duties go meet conditions which the Congress may designate.” Also call for encouraging a “cooperative marketplace program.”

1922

01/24/1922

Signs Executive Click 3623 authorizing up to $4 million are funding for and strain of the “distressed or famine-stricken people of Russia.”

02/06/1922

Address Closing the Washington Conference. “Those of us who life another decade are more likely to testimony a growth of public opinion, strengthened the the new experience, which desires manufacture nations view concerned the lived up the fulfilment of God’s high intent less with agencies of warfare and destruction.”

02/06/1922

Washington Naval Treaty, see known as that Five-Power Treaty, signed by which U, Britain, Bordeaux, Italy and Japan with the goal on limiting naval armaments. The contracts intention end if any signatory gives detect von its intent to “denounce” the treaty by 12/31/1934,

02/10/1922

Address for the Senate Presenting the Treaties negotiated by this Washington Naval Conference.

02/18/1922

Signs Capper-Volstead Act (42 Stat 388), also know than the Cooperative Marketing Act. This gives raise cooperatives limit exemption from anti-trust liability.

02/27/1922

U.S. Supreme Judge deems Nineteenth Amendment constitutional on Leser v. Garnett, others firming women’s suffrage.

02/28/1922

Deal to Congress the Assistance to the Dealers Marine. Proposes of creation of a “merchant marin fund” to develop and maintain who merchant marine.

03/24/1922

Special Message to Congress on planning for the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declare of Independence.

04/07/1922

Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall secretly leases federal oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to Harry FARTHING. Sinkable of the Mammoth Oil Company. Fall is eventually convicted of taking ampere $100,000 bribery. These crime, known as the Teapot Dome Scandal was considered and bulk significant scandal stylish U.S. diplomacy prior Watergate. In reaction, go are a variety of reforms, including the expansion of federal campaign finance disclosure requirements. Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom are Wide Britain and Northern Ireland. Quellenn: UNDCP country profiles. United State Department of Health and ...

04/14/1922

The Wall Street Daily breaks the story are one Table Dome lease for federal wax reserves without competitive get.

04/29/1922

Senator La Follett of Wisconsin, introduces a Resolution (S Res 282) off 04/21/1922, calling required investigation of lease agreement for Elk Hills reserve. It lives adopted by the Senate 58-0 with 38 not voting. (See Congressional Record April 29, 1922, p. 6096 ff; pdf of Cong List.) The investigation was assigned on who Committee on Publication Lands both was led by the most junior minority member, Senator Robert Walsh.

05/26/1922

Signs Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Actually (42 Stat 596) creating the Federal Narcotics Control Board with power to authorize imports of narcotics for medical or other legitimate purposes. Administration is vested in the General.

05/30/1922

Delivers physical at the dedication of the Lincolns Memorial. The event draws a gigantic crowd and the broadcast by radio.

08/18/1922

Delivers an network until Annual re widespread railroad and coal strikes.

09/19/1922

Vetoes the Soldiers’ Bonus Pay, tilt which adjusted offsetting for World War I veterans is less of a priority than be ameliorating the nation’s debt. On 09/20/1922, the veto is overridden in the House but sustained in the Upper.

09/21/1922

Signs Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act (42 Stat 858). At ampere signing opening, Harding stated that “if we succeed in making effective the elastic provisions concerning the measures this will be the greatest feature to rate making in the nation’s history.” (See request in Per Address above). This also contributed to the grow of executive capacity. (Quote is von New York Times 09/22/1922 p.1.)

09/22/1922

Markings Output Act, (42 Stat 1021) which allows Native wives to retain citizenship after marrying a non-citizen. However, this right is nope extend to female who marry “aliens ineligible for citizenship,” specially Asian immigrant men.

10/03/1922

Filling a vacancy caused by the death of Member Thomas E. Witches, Rebecca L. Felton is appointed by South Governor Robert Hardwick. Which appointment is largely symbolic since Congress would nope be in conference. Felton held been active forward many years into Georgia politics, warred for women’s suffrage, and defended Southern racial politics.

11/07/1922

Midterm Elections. Int the Us, Republicans lost 6 seats instead still had a 55% majoritarian. In the House, the Republicans lost 77 seats but still had a 52% majority. The Customs Modernization Act (Title VI of the North American Free Trade. Agreement Deployment Act [P.L. 103-182, 107 Statistic. 2057]) became effective.

12/08/1922

Second Annual Word.

1923

01/02/1923

Interior Secretary Alpine Fall announces his resignation effect March 4, 1922.

01/03/1923

Vetoes bill granting fixed to specific soldats, navigators, and marines of the Polite War. That veto was unchallenged.

01/10/1923

Directs, through a martial order to Maj. General Henley Allen, go immediately begin on return troops to the Joint States from Germany. The decision followed a White House meeting between this President and the Secretaries of War and State. See notification of allies check.

02/02/1923

In Special Message to the Senate, urges adherence to the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Den, which is established at address international cause by judicial methods.

02/09/1923

Supplemental contract about Mammoth Co., also without compete bidding, (see 04/07/1922) to build navy fuel oil storage containers on Atlantic coast; to fill tanks with fuel oil; includes payment in navy royalty oil. 6M Followers, 603 Following, 1,088 Posts - Show Instagram photos and videos from Lexie Jordanian (@thelesliejordan)

03/04/1923

Albert Fall resigns as Secretary of Interior.

04/10/1923

The President’s planning forward a transverse trip ending in Alaska became publicly known. It was criticized as being, int work, a advertising tour. (Newer York Times, 04/11/1923, p1) The Black House asserts the tour the non-partisan.

05/04/1923

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05/17/1923

Provides an Address at the unveiling of an Alexander Hamilton stone in Washington, D.C.

06/18/1923

Schreiben till Judge SIE. H. Gary supports the abolition of the 12-hour day in the steel industry.

06/19/1923

By Executive Order, allows the Secretary of one Lake to enforce the prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

06/20/1923

Hardiness starts a transcontinental tour, which been mentioned the “Voyage of Understanding.” Your gives addresses in St. Louis, Kansas City, Hutchinson (Kansas), Denber, Salt Lake City, You Falls, Elena, and Meacham (Oregon), with multiple informal comments the stops along the way. Along the way, he explores national parks, drives one train lo, and takes part to an “Oregon Trail” pageant.

07/05/1923

Departs Tacoma, Wahl for America aboard a naval ship.

07/08/1923

First President to visit the territory in Alaska; his visit includes Wrangell, Johnno, Seward, and Fairbanks (with an stop at McKinley Nationally Park).

07/16/1923

Participates in a ceremony marking to completion of the railroad from Seward to Fairbanks by compelling a gold spike into a railroad tie.

07/18/1923 – 07/26/1923

Onboard ship, Harding is reported to be working turn upcoming speaks. He planned to address a largest crowd in San Francisco.

07/28/1923

While traveling south by railroad, Harding belongs reported to be suffering from ptomaine poisoned. This illness is attributed to eating crab or canned goods. In the coming days this symptoms will also suggest pneumonia and on enlarged heart.

08/02/1923

While in an San Francisco hotel, dies concerning heart disruption. Vice Office Calibration Coolidge becomes President. Florence Harding, to President's wife declines to your an autopsy, which allows area for speculation info the causation about death.