President Harding and his secty. George Christian leaving St. Patricks Church.
Warren G. Harding, an Ohio Republican, became the first incumbent senator to be elected president of the United States. Although sixteen of the nation's forty-four presidents served in the Senate at some point in their public careers, John F. Kennedy (D-MA) and Barack Obama (D-IL) are the only other senators to reach the White House directly from the Senate.
Senate Years of Service: 1915-1921
Party: Republican
HARDING, Warren Gamaliel, a Senator from Ohio and 29th President of the United States; born in Blooming Grove, Morrow County, Ohio, November 2, 1865; attended the public schools and Ohio Central College at Iberia; studied law for a short time; taught school; engaged in the insurance business; became editor and publisher of the Marion Star in 1884; member, State senate 1899-1903; lieutenant governor of Ohio 1904-1905; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1910; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1915, until his resignation, effective January 13, 1921, having been elected President; chairman, Committee on the Philippines (Sixty-sixth Congress); elected President of the United States on the Republican ticket, was inaugurated March 4, 1921, and served until his death in San Francisco, Calif., while on a tour of the Western States and Alaska, August 2, 1923; lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, August 8, 1923; interment in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Ohio; reinterment in Harding Memorial Tomb.
American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Downes, Randolph. The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding: 1865-1920. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1970; Dean, John W. Warren G. Harding. New York: Times Books, 2004.
Source Biographical Directory of the United States Congress - Internet
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