The term “The Ohio Gang” is misleading. First of all, not all of them were from Ohio.
Warren Harding: A Lackluster Politician
Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) was a lackluster fellow. His abilities were moderate, not stellar. His ambition for high achievement was only mediocre. If it required effort, he was happier to decline. His only true gift was friendliness. He was a first-class back-slapper and glad-hander, as natural to him as breathing.
Handsome Warren Harding, the man who “looked like a President.”
Harding was a successful newspaper publisher – a career he fell into as a young man. With his wife, the former Florence Kling, managing the circulation department of the Marion Star, he was free to pursue politics. Since the local newspaper publisher is always a popular speaker at civic organizations, Harding was happy accept the invitations to “bloviate” as he called it. He “bloviated” himself into the…
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