The football program has the highest average home attendance among Harding's team sports.

In their 2005 book Freakonomics, University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner wrote of their visit to Stetson Kennedy's Florida home and alluded to Warren Harding's possible Klan affiliation.

When his newspaper business attained sufficient economic stability, and even dominance, in Marion, Harding and his wife traveled widely throughout the country, which broadened Harding's exposure at political gatherings.

However, it was mainly Harding's support in the Senate for women's suffrage legislation that made him more popular with that demographic: the ratification of the 19th Amendment in August 1920 brought huge crowds of women to Marion, Ohio, to hear Harding.

Upon her return to Marion, Mrs. Harding hired a number of secretaries to collect and burn President Harding's personal papers.

In fact, his reputation was so controversial, it was not until 1931 that President Harding's marble memorial colonnade in Marion was ably dedicated by Herbert Hoover.

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.

During the 1912 party split Daugherty and Harding forged a political friendship working on behalf of the Taft campaign, with Daugherty filling the role of Ohio Republican Party chairman with Harding's newspaper, the Marion Daily Star, giving Daugherty its full support.

A popular myth with the residents of Marion is that Harding's dog Laddie Boy is buried in the memorial with him.

The Site Administrator of the Harding Home Museum ( Ohio Historical Society property ) in Marion, Ohio, draws a relationship between Harding's alleged Klan activities directly to the rumor-mill stirred up after the President died in 1923 and Mrs. Harding in 1924.

Eventually, Harding's family moved to Caledonia, Ohio, where his father then acquired The Argus, a local weekly newspaper.

Harding's ally and Ohio political boss Mark Hanna

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 ".

Some in the party began to scout for such an alternative, and Harding's name arose, despite his reluctance, due to his unique ability to draw vital Ohio votes.

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.

Harding's appointment of Harry M. Daugherty as Attorney General received at the time more criticism than any other ; Harding's campaign manager's Ohio lobbying and back room maneuvers with politicians were not considered the best qualifications.

Many of these individuals came into Harding's personal orbit during his tenure as a state-level politician in Ohio, thus the name.

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.

" Among the critics of the clique was Harding's straight-laced Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, who while generally appreciative of Harding viewed the motivations and behavior of the Ohio Gang with thinly concealed disgust.

In his memoirs, published in 1952, Hoover depicted Harding's Ohio cronies as a reflection of a character flaw:

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 had done nothing to stem 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.

As an Ohio Republican party boss in 1920, Daugherty engineered Harding's ascendancy as the Republican Party presidential nominee at that year's Republican National Convention in Chicago.

Several of Harding's Ohio Gang associates lost no time wetting their beaks at the public expense.

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.

Chancellor's theory on Harding's lineage was based upon affidavits provided by aged Crawford County, Ohio residents that Harding was of mixed race.

Harding's father, Dr. George Tryon Harding, was a homeopathic physician ; Harding's mother Pheobe Dickerson Harding was a midwife who later qualified for an Ohio medical license.

Primary source material on file at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus does not contain evidence of Harding's alleged membership in the Klan.

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.

Roy Asa Haynes, Harding's Prohibition Commissioner, ran the patronage-riddled Prohibition bureau, which was allegedly corrupt from top to bottom.

During Harding's western travels, historian Samuel H. Adams claims that Harding's own political views began to expand and became more independent from established Republican Party agenda.

The Examiner for Aug. 3, 1923, states that Harding's " remains will not be taken from the hotel except to go directly to the train.

" The Chronicle for Aug. 3 and 4, 1923, says the same thing the Examiner does, that Harding's body was taken from the Palace Hotel directly to the train depot at Third and Townsend.

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

Russell also concluded from the letters that Phillips was the love of Harding's life —" the enticements of his mind and body combined in one person ".

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.

Shortly afterwards, Denby got Harding's approval to transfer control of the naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California, from the Department of the Navy to the Department of the Interior, headed by Albert B.

The original bass player for Best was Geraint Bevan, Harding's old musical comrade from The Derelicts.

After years of playing in the Ganus Athletic Center, Harding's volleyball and basketball teams moved back to the Rhodes Memorial Field House, a round-topped airplane hangar from WWII.

His work called to mind a famous line from H. L. Mencken, who, describing President Warren G. Harding's prose, said, ' It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.

It has also been seen as a letter celebrating Harding's release from being tried for printing the Drapier's letters.

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.

Some felt, such as historian Steve Roper, English Mountain magazine editor Ken Wilson, and southern Californians like Robbins and Yvon Chouinard, that Harding's flamboyant willingness to use expansion bolts took some of the adventure away from climbing.

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1923 to March 4, 1925, during the last months of Warren G. Harding's presidency, and the first years of his successor, Calvin Coolidge.

Wyn Craig Wade states Harding's membership as fact and gives a detailed account of a secret swearing-in ceremony in the White House, but bases this claim on a private communication in 1985 from journalist Stetson Kennedy.

Lee Harding's Musical career left off straight away just after he was eliminated from Australian Idol as third runner up.