历届美国总统简介：沃伦·甘梅利尔·哈定（在线收听）

沃伦·甘梅利尔·哈定为美国第29位总统( 任期1921年3月4日--1923年8月2日)，生于俄亥俄州，卒于任期内。1865年。父亲乔治·哈丁在南北战争时应征入伍，后教过书，从过医。母亲菲比是个医生。哈丁在农村长大，先当一个小报记者。他与弗洛伦斯·克林·德沃尔夫于1891年结婚，婚后，弗洛伦斯即经营报纸来支持哈定投身政界。

Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving between 1921 and 1923. He was born in Ohio in 1865, the eldest of eight children. He graduated from college in 1882, aged 17, and worked as a teacher and insurance agent. He then tried his hand at journalism and in 1886 he bought a failing newspaper for $300. This allowed him to make a name for himself in Ohio politics.

Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1915 and served two terms until his inauguration as President in 1921. While in the Senate, he opposed President Wilson’s League of Nations and introduced 134 bills. Historians say he had an “unremarkable” career in the Senate. He rarely spoke, he introduced no major bills and his attendance was “not the best”.

An Ohio admirer, Harry Daugherty, began to promote Harding for the 1920 Republican nomination because he said, "He looked like a President." He won the Republican ticket and went on to win the Presidential election by an enormous landslide of 60 percent of the popular vote. Harding got rid of wartime controls, slashed taxes, restored the high tariffs, and tightly restricted immigration.

By 1923 the postwar depression gave way to new prosperity. Newspapers hailed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise of "Less government in business and more business in government." The nation’s unemployment halved during his administration. Despite all this, historians believe Harding is one of the worst Presidents. In 1923, he died in San Francisco of a heart attack.