President Harding’s body arrives in home town 90 years ago this hour (1923)

August 9, 20131920s, U.S. Presidentsadmin

Video: 'Warren G. Harding: America's 29th President' (Aug. 9, 1923, at 13:26)

(Thursday, August 9, 1923, 12:40 p.m. EST) — Traveling slowly through long lines of home folks, the funeral train carrying the body of President Warren G. Harding arrived today in Marion, Ohio. The body will lay in state at the home of the late president’s father before burial tomorrow.

2014: Barack Obama-Joe Biden
2004: +George W. Bush-Dick Cheney
1994: Bill Clinton-Al Gore
1984: Ronald Reagan-George H.W. Bush
1974: #Gerald Ford-@Nelson Rockefeller
1964: >Lyndon B. Johnson-(vacant)
1954: Dwight D. Eisenhower-Richard Nixon
1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt-Henry A. Wallace
1934: Franklin D. Roosevelt-John N. Garner
1924: >Calvin Coolidge-(vacant)
1914: Woodrow Wilson-Thomas R. Marshall
1904: >Theodore Roosevelt-(vacant)
1894: Grover Cleveland-Adlai Stevenson I
1884: >Chester A. Arthur-(vacant)
1874: Ulysses S. Grant-Henry Wilson
1864: Abraham Lincoln-Hannibal Hamlin
1854: Franklin Pierce-(vacant)
1844: >*John Tyler-(vacant)
1834: *Andrew Jackson-Martin Van Buren
1824: *James Monroe-Daniel D. Tompkins
1814: *James Madison-(vacant)
1804: *Thomas Jefferson-Aaron Burr
1794: *George Washington-John Adams

+ Took office after stolen election
^ Elected without winning popular vote
> Ascended to presidency intra-term upon death or resignation of predecessor and in Ford’s case #, after being appointed VP under 25th Amendment
@ Appointed VP under the 25th Amendment
* Owned slaves while in office

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