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HARDING, Warren G. (1865-1923), President. Photograph signed ("Warren G. Harding"), as President, also signed by each member of THE HARDING CABINET: Vice-President CALVIN COOLIDGE ("Calvin Coolidge"), Secretary of Commerce HERBERT HOOVER ("Herbert Hoover"), Secretary of State CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, Secretary of Treasury ANDREW W. MELLON, Attorney General HARRY. M. DAUGHERTY, Secretary of the Interior ALBERT B. FALL, Secretary of Navy EDWIN DENBY, Secretary of War JOHN W. WEEKS, Postmaster General WILLIS HAYS, Secretary of Labor JAMES J. DAVIS, Secretary of Agriculture HENRY C. WALLACE, The White House, n.d. Photograph copyright by Edmonston at lower right. 10¼ x 13¾ in. All signatures in lower margin.
THREE PRESIDENTIAL SIGNATURES GRACE THIS PHOTO PORTRAIT, as Harding and his Cabinet pose in the early days of the new administration (when such formal group portraits were usually taken). The President stares somewhat listlessly into space, while two of his more alert and important aides flank him left and right: Charles Evans Hughes, the future Supreme Court Chief Justice, and Andrew Mellon, one of the wealthiest men in America. A youthful and energetic Herbert Hoover sits at the far end of the table. Two future criminal suspects are also present, Attorney General Daugherty and Interior Secretary Fall, of Teapot Dome infamy. Hoover was only half-jokingly referred to as Secretary of Commerce and Under Secretary of Everything Else. A rare example of three successive Presidents pictured together.
THREE PRESIDENTIAL SIGNATURES GRACE THIS PHOTO PORTRAIT, as Harding and his Cabinet pose in the early days of the new administration (when such formal group portraits were usually taken). The President stares somewhat listlessly into space, while two of his more alert and important aides flank him left and right: Charles Evans Hughes, the future Supreme Court Chief Justice, and Andrew Mellon, one of the wealthiest men in America. A youthful and energetic Herbert Hoover sits at the far end of the table. Two future criminal suspects are also present, Attorney General Daugherty and Interior Secretary Fall, of Teapot Dome infamy. Hoover was only half-jokingly referred to as Secretary of Commerce and Under Secretary of Everything Else. A rare example of three successive Presidents pictured together.