The border vidette., 1923-08-04
THE PRESIDENT is DEAD.
Chief Executive Dies Suddenly While
Conversing With His Wife.

San Francisco, Aug. Fol
lowing a day which Brigadier-
General Sawyer. the presidents
physician, had described as the
most satisfactory day for the
chief executive since his illness
began, Warren 6. Harding. Doth
president of the United States,
died at the Palace Hotel in this
city at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
Death came instantly and with
out warning. The President was
conversing with members of, his
family when death came and ac-
cording to an official statement
issued by the physicians, was
apparently due to some brain
development, probably apoplexy
PHYSICIANS STATEMENT
The death of the chief execu-
tive was announced as follows:
The president died instant
aneously and without warming
and while conversing with mem
bers of his family at 7:30 p. m.
Death was apparently due to
some brain development, prob
ably an apoplexy.
During the day he had been
free from discomfort and there
was every justification for an
ticipating prompt recovery.
&C. E. Sawyer, Md, Ray
Lyman Wilbur. Md c. M.
Cooper, Md, J. Boone, Md,
Hubert Work, M. D."
August 2. 1923, 7:35 p. M"
The end came so suddenly
that members of the official par
ty could not be called.
Warren Gamaliel Harding was
born near the village of Corsica,
O., Nov. 2. 1865.
His father, DR.. G. T. Harding,
was a country physician who
added to his income by conduct
ing small farm. His mother
was formerly Miss Phebe Eliza
beth Dickerson.
Warren, the eldest of eight
children, attended the village
school. and in his fourteenth
year entered the Ohio Central
College. in Iberia, O. He gradu-
ated with B. S degree in 1882,
taught school for a year, read
law for another year and then
was given the ownership of the
Marion, (Ohio) Star, by his
father
Harding conducted the news
paper for some time against
great financial odds, but finally
was forced to sell it. He took a
job as reporter on the Marion
Mirror, but political differences,
with the owner, resulted in his
leaving shortly.
He again became owner of the.
Star and with the assistance of
his wife, formerly Miss Florence
Elizabeth King, whom he mar
ried in 1891, made it highly sue
cessful.
Harding first held public Office
in 1900 when he became state
senator. He held this office un-
til 1904 when he took office as
lieutenant governor of Ohio. In
1910 he ran for governor but
was defeated.
In 1914 Harding was elected
u. S. senator from Ohio and was
temporary chairman of the Re-
publican convention in 1916.
He remained in the Senate un-
til he was nominated for presi-
dent on the Republican ticket in
1920. He was elected the 29th
president of the United States
Nov. 2, 1920, on his 55th birth
day, and took Office March 4,
1921.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE.
President Calvin Coolidge, al
though by profession lawyer,
entered the public service almost
Immediately upon leaving college
First elected a member of the
city council of Northampton,
Mss, the city which had been
his home since he became a
voter. he progressed steadily up
ward through the offices Of city
solicitor, mayor. membership in
the house Of representatives and
of the senate of Massachusetts,
serving as president Of the latter
body, and then as lieutenant
governor until elected governor,
and, in 1920, vice president Of
the United States
He was born in the village of
Plymouth. Vt, on july 4. 1872.