Florence Harding
Florence Mabel Kling De Wolfe Harding (born August 15, 1860 in Marion , Ohio as Florence Mabel Kling ; † November 21, 1924 there ) was the wife of US President Warren G. Harding and the First Lady of the USA from 1921 to 1923.
Life
Florence Mabel Kling was the only daughter of Amos Hall Kling (1833–1913) and Louise Mabel Bouton Kling (1835–1893). She had two brothers.
With her first husband, Henry Athenton De Wolfe (1859-1894), she had a son named Marshall Eugene De Wolfe (1880-1915). The couple divorced in 1886. In 1891 she married Warren G. Harding. With the introduction of women's suffrage in the United States in the presidential election on November 2, 1920, she was the first later first lady who was able to vote for her husband. After his sudden death in office in August 1923, she died in November 1924. She was buried in the Harding Memorial , her husband was transferred to her side in 1931 from Marioner Friedhof.
literature
- Katherine AS Sibley: Florence Kling Harding: Celebrity and Activist. In Katherine AS Sibley (Ed.): A Companion to First Ladies. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2016, ISBN 978-1-118-73222-9 , pp. 379-403.
- Carl Sferrazza Anthony: Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President , New York 1998, Morrow
Web links
- Biography on the White House website
- National First Ladies' Library - Florence Harding, biography
- National First Ladies' Library - Florence Harding, Bibliography
- Florence Harding in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)
- Sarah Levy: First Lady Florence Harding - President of the United States , one day biographical article
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harding, Florence |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kling De Wolfe Harding, Florence Mabel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American first lady |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marion , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1924 |
| Place of death | Marion , Ohio |