Warren G. Harding was the 29th U.S. president and served from 1921 to 1923. His term followed World War I and a campaign promising a “return to normalcy.”

• Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular U.S. presidents to that point.
• Born: November 2, 1865, Blooming Grove, OH
• Died: August 2, 1923, San Francisco, CA
• Presidential term: March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923
• Party: Republican Party
• Vice president: Calvin Coolidge (1921–1923)
• Spouse: Florence Harding (m. 1891–1923)
• First president born after the American Civil War
• First president to be elected while being a sitting U.S. senator. Harding was serving as a senator from Ohio when elected. He resigned his position as senator and was replaced by Frank B. Willis.
• First president to have been a lieutenant governor. He served as lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1906.
• First president elected after women gained the right to vote.
• First president to ride to and from his inauguration in an automobile. The inauguration of Harding took place in 1921.
• First president to learn to drive a car.
• First president to visit Canada while in office.
• First president to be a Baptist.
• First president to have had a director of the Office of Management and Budget.
• First president to serve as temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention.
• First president to have been keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention.
• First president to be elected on his birthday (he was elected on November 2, 1920, his 55th birthday).
• First president to predecease his father. George Tryon Harding died in 1928, five years after his son.
• First president to appear on a radio broadcast, over navy radio station NOF in Anacostia, D.C.