Warren G. Harding was born November 2, 1865, in Ohio. He began his career in politics in 1899 when elected to the Ohio State Senate as a Republican. He later served as Lieutenant Governor and U.S. Senator. He was sworn in as president on March 4th, 1921 and died on August 2, 1923.
Passenger list for the U.S.S. Henderson, which hosted President Warren G. Harding and his presidential party on his "Voyage of Understanding" trip to Alaska in 1923.
In 1923, President Harding embarked on his "Voyage of Understanding", a public relations tour throughout Alaska, partially undertaken on the U.S.S. Henderson. He was joined by his wife, Mrs. Harding, Hubert Work (Secretary of the Interior), Herbert Hoover (Secretary of Commerce), Henry Cantwell Wallace (Secretary of Argiculture), and Scott C. Bone (Alaska Territorial Govenor), as well as 80 other presidential staff members, news reporters, and photographers.
The voyage took President Harding though Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Sitka, Juneau and Skagway, Valdez, and Seward. From Seward they continued on to Snow River, Chickaloon, Anchorage, Willow, Montana, Cantwell, Curry, and Nenana by rail and car.
President Harding died on August 2, 1923 in San Francisco, CA, just weeks after his return from Alaska. The official cause of death was pneumonia. However, it was widely suspected that Harding died of food poisoning after eating tainted crabs in Alaska.
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