Person

Warren G. Harding

29th president of the United States whose administration represented the early 1920s return to normalcy after World War I.

Status: draft
Entity Type: person
Start Date: 2 Nov 1865
End Date: 2 Aug 1923

Summary

Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States.

Historical role

He matters here because his presidency marked a turn toward postwar stabilization, limited government rhetoric, and the political culture of the 1920s.

Connections

Useful for linking the post-World War I settlement, Republican politics, and the transition into the Roaring Twenties.