Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows vice presidential candidate Calvin Coolidge with Florence Kling Harding, wife of Senator Warren G. Harding, on the porch of the Harding home in Marion, Ohio. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20P07_001
Subjects: Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933; Harding, Florence Kling, 1860-1924; First ladies (United States); Presidential campaigns; Vice-Presidential candidates -- United States
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks was born at this site on September 7, 1819, near Zanesville, Ohio. While still a baby, Thomas' family moved to Indiana and he grew up and rose to prominence in the Hoosier State. Hendricks served consecutively in the Indiana State Legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives during the late 1840s and the 1850s. From 1863 to1869, he was one of Indiana's U.S. Senators. Hoosiers elected Hendricks to serve as Indiana's sixteenth governor in 1872, making him the first Democrat to win that office in a northern state after the Civil War. In 1876, vice-presidential candidate Hendricks and his running mate, Samuel Tilden, lost the presidential election to Ohioan Rutherford B. Hayes. Hendricks joined Grover Cleveland on the Democratic party's presidential ticket in 1884 and won. Hendricks died in 1885, after serving only eight months as vice president. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07688
Subjects: Birthplaces; Vice-Presidential candidates--United States; Politicians;
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a photograph depicting Ohio Governor John W. Bricker leaning from a train platform to shake hands with a young boy while campaigning for the office of Vice President, 1944. Bricker served as Ohio Governor from 1939-1945. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01077
Subjects: Vice-Presidential candidates--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
 

Description: Portrait of Thomas A. Hendricks, Grover Cleveland's vice presidential candidate, found in "Life and Public Services of Hon. Grover Cleveland" by Hon. William Dorsheimer. Hendricks was born near Zanesville, Ohio, September 7, 1819. Elected to Vice President on the Democratic ticket with Cleveland in 1884, he served until his death, November 25, 1885. Below portrait signature reads: T. A. Hendricks View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03877
Subjects: Vice-Presidential candidates--United States; Ohio--Politics and government; Hendricks, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrews), 1819-1885
 

Description: Charles Warren Fairbanks (1852-1918), served as Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909 under President Theodore Roosevelt. Fairbanks was born on a farm near Unionville Center, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a bachelor of arts and worked with the Associated Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio. He later studied law and worked for many railroad companies. Before he was Theodore Roosevelt's vice president, he was a member of the Senate from 1896 to 1905. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04064
Subjects: Vice-Presidential candidates--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Ohio Wesleyan University; Portrait photography
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and another man standing in the grass outside Harding's home in Marion, Ohio. Harding's wife, Florence Kling Harding, sits near the front porch. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20P11_003
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923--Photographs; Harding, Florence Kling, 1860-1924; Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933; Historic houses; Vice-Presidential candidates -- United States; First ladies (United States)
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of President Andrew Johnson, from the Sherman Family Photograph Collection, ca. 1865-1880. Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on December 29, 1808. After moving to Tennessee, he served several terms in the state legislature from 1835 to 1837 and from 1839 to 1843. In 1843, Tennessee voters elected Johnson to the U.S. House of Representatives, a seat he held for a decade. Johnson won the Tennessee governor's race in 1852 and held this position from 1853 until 1857. He was chosen as Abraham Lincoln's vice-presidential candidate in 1864, and became President of the United States on April 15, 1865, upon the assassination of Lincoln. He was reelected for a second term and served until March 4, 1869. He died on July 31, 1875, in Elizabethton, Tennessee. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04256
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Vice-Presidential candidates--United States; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Places: Tennessee; Washington D.C.
 

Description: A portrait of Colonel Richard Johnson (1781-1850), who served as colonel of the Kentucky Volunteers during the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813, where some accounts give him credit for killing the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. Johnson used this fame in his campaign for the vice presidency as a Democrat in 1836, running on the slogan "Rumseh dumseh, Johnson killed Tecumseh." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03982
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Politicians; Vice-Presidential candidates--United States