On May 10, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Hoover as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation, following President Warren Harding's death and in response to allegations that the prior director, William J. Burns, was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal.

The most notorious scandal was the Teapot Dome affair, most of which came to light long after Harding's death, which concerned an oil reserve located in Wyoming, which was covered by a rock formation in the shape of a teapot.

According to the historian Samuel H. Adams, Harding's death was mourned by the nation and the average citizen felt a " personal loss ".

Following Mrs. Harding's death on November 21, 1924 ( from renal failure ), she was buried next to her husband.

President Harding's sudden death led to theories that he had been poisoned or committed suicide.

Harding's biographer, Samuel H. Adams, concluded that " Warren G. Harding died a natural death which, in any case, could not have been long postponed ".

Immediately after President Harding's death, Mrs. Harding returned to Washington, D. C., and briefly stayed in the White House with President and First Lady Coolidge.

* Memorial U. S. postage stamp issued after Harding's death

* Dr. Charles E. Sawyer-a homeopathic physician who is blamed for giving a false diagnosis of U. S. President Warren G. Harding that led to Harding's premature death, practiced medicine in LaRue.

* Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, a homeopathic physician who is blamed for giving a false diagnosis of U. S. President Warren G. Harding that led to Harding's premature death.

Following Harding's death in 1923, Britton wrote what is considered to be the first kiss-and-tell book, The President's Daughter, published in 1927.

According to Britton, Harding had promised to support her daughter, but after his sudden death in 1923, Harding's family refused to acknowledge the obligation.

After Harding's death and Calvin Coolidge's succession to the Presidency, she planned the new administration's social life as her husband wanted it: unpretentious but dignified.

Following Harding's sudden death of a heart attack in 1923, the Ohio Gang were effectively removed from the corridors of power by Harding's Vice President and successor, Calvin Coolidge.

Following Harding's death, Hoover and his co-thinker, Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, approached new President Calvin Coolidge and asked him to remove prominent Ohio Gang member Daugherty as Attorney General.

Harding's death did nothing to quell the tide of emerging scandals revolving around his Ohio clique, with the news dominated by the story of Teapot Dome bribery and allegations of wrongdoing in the Office of the Alien Property Custodian, the Veterans ' Bureau, and the Office of the Attorney General.

Had Lenroot won the nomination, he, rather than Coolidge, would have become the 30th President of the United States upon Harding's death in 1923.

The investigation began in October 1923 after Harding's death, and the Senate Committee on Lands and Public Surveys, which carried out the inquiry, concluded in 1924 that the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases to the oil companies had been fraudulent and corrupt.

After the death of Howell Jackson's first wife in 1873 ( Sophia Malloy of Jackson, Tennessee ), Howell Edmunds Jackson married General Harding's youngest daughter, Mary Elizabeth Harding.

Charles Elmer Sawyer, also known as Dr. C. E. Sawyer ( January 24, 1860 – September 23, 1924 ), was a homeopathic physician who is blamed for giving a false diagnosis of U. S. President Warren G. Harding that led to Harding's premature death.

In January 1923, before the death of President Harding, newspapers speculated that Judge Kenyon would be Harding's leading opponent in the 1924 presidential race.

The dispute was ultimately only ended by Harding's death in a helicopter crash in October 1996.

After Harding's death, George Faulkner became Swift's primary publisher in Ireland, and A Letter to the Lord Chancellor Middleton and An Humble Address were copied from manuscript copies provided by the author to Faulkner and then printed with the other letters.

Harding's great-great grandfather Amos claimed that a thief, who had been caught in the act by the family, started the rumor as an attempted extortion.

Harding's only notable reform effort in his first term ( Ohio state offices had terms of two years ) was a progressive bill to revamp the municipal code, which had passed the Senate but was halted by a single member's procedural call to " reconsider ".

In an era when the " one-drop rule " would classify a person with any African ancestry as black, and black people in the South had been effectively disfranchised, Harding's campaign manager responded, " No family in the state ( of Ohio ) has a clearer, a more honorable record than the Hardings ', a blue-eyed stock from New England and Pennsylvania, the finest pioneer blood.

One of Harding's earlier decisions as President was the appointment of former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a position Taft had always coveted, more so than the Presidency.

Before Harding's election, the nation had been adrift ; President Woodrow Wilson had been ill by a debilitating stroke for eighteen months and before that Wilson had been in Europe for several months attempting to negotiate a peace settlement after World War I.

On May 12, 1921, just two months into Harding's presidency, violence was initiated near Matewan, West Virginia, between private detectives, on behalf of the Stone Mountain Coal Company, and United Mine Workers union members who had been fired from their jobs and were being evicted from company-owned housing.

Katherine Marcia Forbes, wife of Harding's Veterans Bureau appointment Charles R. Forbes, had unprecedented access to the White House.

Votaw, was Harding's brother-in-law and had been appointed by the President in April 1921.

Lasker, a cash donor and Harding's general campaign manager, had no previous experience with shipping companies.

Harding's physical health had been declining since the fall of 1922.

Harding's pulse was normal and his lung infection had subsided.

Before the broker could get authority from Harding's successors to liquidate the stocks purchased on loan, the account had a loss of more than $ 170, 000.

Nancy Kerrigan had before the games been clubbed by Tonya Harding's associate, but managed to take silver in ladies ' singles.

The public had grown weary of the turmoil of the Wilson years, and eagerly accepted Harding's call for a " return to normalcy.

Thomas had an uneventful midwestern childhood and adolescence, helping to put himself through Marion High School as a paper carrier for Warren G. Harding's Marion Daily Star.

These scandals had besmirched Harding's Attorney General, Harry M. Dougherty, and forced his resignation.

Harding's widow immediately gathered and had burned the late President's papers in an effort to preserve her husband's legacy.

Giles Harding remarried and had two daughters, Selene Harding ( Bill Jackson's grandmother ) and Mary Elizabeth Harding ( Bill Jackson's aunt ), by Giles Harding's second wife, Elizabeth McGavock.