Warren G. Harding (Freemason)
Republican. Politician. Ohio Central College.
1923, His presidency and term in office ends with his untimely death. The next US President was Calvin Coolidge.[9]
1923, On August 2, 1923, President Warren Harding (Freemason) died of a heart attack in San Francisco, California, whilst on a speaking tour.[9]
1922, The Capper-Volstead Act was passed due to the depression of agricultural prices following World War I.[9]
1921, The War protestor and union leader Eugene V. Debs was pardoned.[9]
1921, The Shepperd-Towner Act was passed to fund maternity and infant health care.[9]
1921, The Washington Armament Conference: an international conference called by the US to limit the naval arms race and devise security agreements in the Pacific area.[9]
1921, The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 created the Bureau of the Budget and housed it within the Department of the Treasury.[9]
1921, The President officially opposes entry into the League of Nations.[9]
1921, The Teapot Dome Scandal erupts surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall.[9]
1921, May: The Emergency Quota Act is passed following the massive influx of European immigrants into the U S at the end of World War I.[9]
1921, WWI was formally ended by joint resolution.[9]
1921 to 1923 - 29th President of the United States [VP: Calvin Coolidge]
20 Dec 1922 - Hoover Dam - First death was J. G. Tierney, a surveyor who drowned while looking for an ideal spot for the dam[3,72]. His son, was the last person to die on the project.
4 Mar 1915 to 13 Jan 1921 - United States Senator from Ohio.
11 Jan 1904 to Jan 1906 - 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio.
1 Jan 1900 to 4 Jan 1904 - Member of the Ohio Senate from the 13th district.
Died 2 Aug 1923, from Heart Attack. Age 57.
Note - needs to be checked: Harding went to bed early on the evening of July 27, 1923, a few hours after giving a speech at the University of Washington. Later that night, he called for his physician Charles E. Sawyer, complaining of pain in the upper abdomen. Sawyer thought that it was a recurrence of a dietary upset, but Dr. Joel T. Boone suspected a heart problem. Harding felt better the next day, as the train rushed to San Francisco; they arrived on the morning of July 29 and he insisted on walking from the train to the car, which rushed him to the Palace Hotel[3,190][3,191] where he suffered a relapse. Doctors found that his heart was causing problems, but he also had pneumonia, and he was confined to bed rest in his hotel room. Doctors treated him with caffeine and digitalis, and he seemed to improve. Hoover released Harding’s foreign policy address advocating membership in the World Court, and the president was pleased that it was favorably received. By the afternoon of August 2, doctors allowed him to sit up in bed. Florence was reading him “A Calm Review of a Calm Man” at 7:30 that evening, a flattering article from The Saturday Evening Post; she paused to fluff his pillows and he said, “That’s good, read some more”. She resumed reading when Harding suddenly twisted convulsively and collapsed back in the bed; doctors were unable to revive him with stimulants.[3,192] His death was initially attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage, as doctors at the time did not generally understand the symptoms of cardiac arrest.[3,23][3,190]
Skull and Bones / Others / Related - to be completed.
Harold Phelps Stokes (S&B1909) - Accompanied President Warren G. Harding on his trip to Alaska. During the trip, the President fell ill and was rushed to San Francisco, where he died Aug. 2. Mr. Stokes friendship with Herbert Hoover, Mr Harding’s Secretary of Commerce, deepened during those crisis days in August, 1923.
Benjamin Mayham Hulley (Rhodes 1917)
8 Nov 1924 - FSO, Stockholm.
16 Oct 1924 - Foreign Service Office (FSO).
Benjamin Bruce Wallace (Rhodes 1904)
1922 to 1937 - Chief of Division of International Relations at the U.S. Tariff Commission by President Warren G. Harding (Freemason)
William Singer Moorhead (S&B 1906)
1922 to 1924 - Chairman, U S. Tax Simplification Board by President Warren G. Harding (Freemason) and Calvin Coolidge (related to Russell & Co).
Edwin Sheldon Whitehouse (S&B 1905)
1921 to 1928 - Counselor of American Embassy in Paris, France.
Hugh R. Wilson (S&B 1906)
1921 to 1923 - Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan.
William Alexander Stuart (Rhodes 1910)
1921 to 1924 - Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty (Freemason) by President Warren G. Harding (Freemason) and Calvin Coolidge.
1920 to 1921 - Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia.
Edgar Turlington (Rhodes 1911)
1923 - Legal adviser to the American delegation at the Conference on Near Eastern Affairs at Lausanne and to the American high commissioner in Constantinople, Turkey.
1920 to 1925 - Assistant Solicitor of the State Department to 1st Under Secretary and Secretary Frank Polk S&K, Bainbridge Colby (Freemason), Charles Evans Hughes (Delta Upsilon. Brother-in-law Walter Frederick Carter S&B 1895), Frank B. Kellogg (Freemason) by President Woodrow Wilson (Col. Edward M. House), Warren G. Harding (Freemason) and Calvin Coolidge.
Douglas Phillips Miller (Rhodes 1916)
1921 - Expert, conference on Limitation of Armament, Washington.
1921 - Export business in London and New York.
1920 - Repatriation of German and Russian prisoners.
Carol Howe Foster (Rhodes 1905)
1919 to 1924 - U.S. Consul in Vienna, Secretary of State Frank Polk (S&K), Bainbridge Colby (Freemason. Phi Beta Kappa), Charles Evans Hughs (Delta Upsilon. Phi Beta Kappa. Brother-in-law S&B) by President Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding (Freemason).
Charles Delahunt Mahaffie (Rhodes 1905)
1922 to 1930 - Director, Bureau of Finance, Interstate Commerce Commission by President Warren G. Harding [Freemason] and Calvin Coolidge.
1921 to 1922 - Attorney with the US Railroad Administration. (President Warren G. Harding [Freemason]).
1916 to 1921 - Solicitor of the Interior Department, Secretary Franklin K. Lane (Died of Heart Attack, Age 56, 12 days after appendicitis surgery) by President Woodrow Wilson (Col. Edward M. House).
[1] - Whitehouse.gov - Warren G. Harding (Freemason)
[2] - Spartacus Educational.com - Warren G. Harding (Freemason)
[3] - FYI - Wiki - Warren G. Harding (Freemason)
[3,23 - American National Biography - Harding, Warren Gamaliel
[3,190, 192 - The Harding Era 1921–1923: Warren G. Harding and his Administration
[5] - PBS.org - Strange death Warren Harding
[6] - The Still Report - The Money Masters, 1800 - reference to Harding
[7] - Mackey, The Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.
Warren G. Harding. 1921-23. 29th President: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry informs us that “Brother Harding was initiated in Marion Lodge No. 70 at Marion, Ohio on June 28, 1901 [and after 19 years]; Passed , August 13, 1920; Raised, August 27, 1920. At Marion Chapter No. 62, Royal Arch Masons in Marion, Ohio, he received the Mark Master, Past and Most Excellent Master’s Degrees on January 11, 1921, and the Exaltation of the Royal Arch Degree on January 13, 1921. At Marion Commandery No. 36, Knights Templar in Marion, Ohio he received the Order of the Red Cross [Rosicrucian], and the Orders of Knight of Malta and Knight Templar, March 1, 1921. On January 5, 1921, at Scioto Consistory, he (only candidate at the time) received all the grades of the Scottish Rite from 4th to 32nd degree inclusive. He became a member of Aladdin Temple, Nobles of the Muslim Mystic Shrine, in Columbus, Ohio on January 7, 1921. By special dispensation the Order of Veiled Prophet was conferred upon him at the White House… May 11, 1921, by E.W. Libbey, E.S. Schmid, C.P. Boss, and W.W. Jermane, of Kallipolis Grotto. Brother Harding had been elected to receive the Degrees in Marion Council No. 22. Royal and select Masters, in Marion, Ohio as well as the 33rd degree of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, but death intervened.” Harding visited many Masonic groups from Alaska to the Canal Zone. On July 8, 1923 he laid the cornerstone of Ketchikan Lodge No. 159, Ketchikan, Alaska; laid the cornerstone of the Masonic Temple at Birmingham, Alabama on October 25, 1921. He stated: “No man ever took the oaths and subscribed to the obligations with greater watchfulness and care than I have exercised in receiving the various rites of Masonry and I say it with due deliberation and without fear of breaking faith. I have never encountered a lesson, never witnessed an example, never heard an obligation uttered which could not be proclaimed to the world.”
[8] - Millercenter.org - Warren G. Harding (Freemason)
[9] - Presidential-Power.org - Warren G. Harding (Freemason)
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