- He used tobacco in all its forms - cigarettes, cigars, snuff, a pipe and chewing tobacco.
- Pictured on the $2.00 US postage stamp in the Presidential Series, issued 29 September 1938.
- Although Harding was a very effective politician during his term his legacy has been stained by two scandals that came to light after his death. The first was a scandal involving an erroneous claim that his wife had poisoned her husband. The other was "The Teapot Dome Scandal" which involved an oil reserve in Teapot Dome Wyoming that was suppose to be reserved for the Navy but some members of his cabinet who felt that the Navy could be supplied by big oil companies began selling the oil to oil companies for an illegal kickback. Those kickback made some members of Harding's cabinet very rich men and the scandal broke when it became clear that their income had rapidly grown. Although it was never proven that Harding had a hand in the scandal, his reputation has to this day never recovered.
- Pictured on a US 1½¢ regular-issue postage stamp issued 19 March 1925.
- Buried with his wife in the Harding Tomb, Marion, Ohio.
- President of the United States, 4 March 1921 - 2 August 1923 (died in office).
- Popularized the word "bloviate" which is a loud pronouncement of a pompous, boastful statement.
- While President, Harding allegedly had assignations with his mistress, Nan Britton, in the closet of the Oval Office. She claimed that Harding was the father of her daughter, born in 1919, and had promised to support her. While there is no proof of the allegations, which were published by Britton in a book "The President's Daughter" (1927), she reportedly had been obsessed with Harding, a friend of her father's, since she was a girl.
- His Cabinet was nicknamed the "Ohio gang" from their being friends of his. They often played poker and he once gambled and lost an entire White House China set.
- The fifth U.S. president to die in office. Ironically, all presidents to have died in office since the first (William Henry Harrison in 1841) were elected 20 years apart: Harrison in 1840, Abraham Lincoln in 1860, James Garfield in 1880, McKinley in 1900, Warren G. Harding in 1920, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, and John F. Kennedy in 1960. Ronald Reagan (elected 1980) was the victim of an assassin's bullet in 1981, but he survived and broke the 120-year curse that had plagued the U.S. Presidency.
- When he died in 1923, he left the income from the bulk of his estate, valued at $850,000 to his wife Florence. He left his father the interest from $50,000 worth of government bonds. The principal, after the deaths of his wife and father, was to go to his brother and three sisters, except for the following bequests; $25,000 to the Marion Park Commission, $10,000 to each of his nieces and nephews, $4,000 to each of his wife's 2 grandchildren, $2,000 to Trinity to Baptist Church, and $1,000 to Episcopal St. Paul's Church.
- First U.S. President to deliver a speech over radio (June 14, 1922, when he spoke at the dedication of the Francis Scott Key memorial at Ft. McHenry, Baltimore (MD) on station WEAR).
- He was a heavy drinker and continued to be one even after the enaction of Prohibition, a policy that he supported in public but ignored behind closed doors.
- Many historians have argued people only voted for him because he "looked presidential".
- Was the most recent US president without a presidential library, until 2021. The Harding Presidential Library broke ground in March 2019 and opened to the general public (as did the restored Harding Home) on May 12, 2021.
- Had a torrid affair with Carrie Phillips, a friend of his wife's. Carrie was married to James Phillips, the co-owner of one of Marion, Ohio's leading department stores, the Uhler-Phillips Co. Charming, and a great beauty, Carrie eventually bedded the husband of her friend Florence Harding; Warren G. was then the owner-publisher of "The Marion Star" newspaper. Florence, whom her husband called "The Duchess," was outraged when she found out about the affair. Carrie Phillips was not the only one of her friends that her husband had committed adultery with, and apparently, Warren G.'s eye wandered even when he was in the White House.
- According to one account, Harding himself once lamented that he was unfit to hold office.
- He was the first president to explicitly denounce lynching and supported a bill to make it a federal crime.
- He reinstated the hiring of African-Americans for federal government positions that Woodrow Wilson had banned.
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