Harding became president in 1921 which is in the 20th century.
In 1920, Calvin Coolidge was elected to serve as vice-president under Warren Harding.
No, it was the other way around. Calvin Coolidge was Warren G. Harding's running mate in the 1920 U.S. presidential election, so when Harding died on August 2, 1923, Calvin Coolidge became President.
Warren G. Harding became a publisher for his newspaper, The Marion Star, in 1884.
Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) was elected in 1920 and sworn in as the 29th President on March 4, 1921. He died in office two years later, on August 2, 1923. He was succeeded by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge.
The 29th President of the United States was Warren G. Harding from March 4, 1921 to August 2, 1923. In 1923 President Harding died from a heart attack and Vice President Calvin Coolidge would become the 30th President of the United States from August 2, 1923 to March 4, 1929.
He was a compromise candidate. The Republican convention was unable to deliver a majority vote to either of the front runners and turned to Harding instead. He won the election in a landslide (60% of the vote!) and was president from 1921 until his died from a heart attack, in 1923.
Harding did not really want to run, but his friends and his wife wanted him to and he hated to refuse. Party bosses thought he would be a good candidate and run well. He was a US senator from Ohio and was nice looking .
The first (and so far only) US President to have also served as a Justice of the Supreme Court was William Howard Taft, who was appointed Chief Justice by Warren Harding.
Only Harding , Kennedy and Obama.
Vice-president Calvin Coolidge became president because President Harding died while on a speaking tour in the west.
No great amount of formal intelligence or learning is required to be president. You have to have a certain type of practical intelligence, be quick at thinking on your feet and be able to resonate with enough voters to win the election.
James Monroe was the first ex-senator to become president, but he was a Senator more than 20 years before he was President. I am not sure who was the first sitting senator to become President. People used to think it was necessary to resign one office before campaigning for another one. John Kennedy held on to his Senate seat while he ran for president in 1960 but he may not have been the first.