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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 794

Harding, Warren Gamaliel. Twenty-ninth President of the United States (1921-1923); after graduating Ohio Central College purchased with partners the failing Marion Evening Star newspaper; by 1886 he was the sole owner, revamping the paper and making it one of the county's most popular; lieutenant-governor of Ohio, U.S. Senator from Ohio; his term in the Oval Office was ripe with corruption and scandal earning him low marks with historians, although in recent years there has been a greater recognition of him as a politician sensitive to the plight of minorities, women and labor. Autograph Document Signed "W G Harding" as president of Harding Publishing. Certificate for five shares of the Harding Publishing Company of Marion, Ohio issued to Henry R. Schaffner, Feb. 26, 1910. Allegorical vignette of winged Liberty holding up torch, seated Agriculture and Industry. Extremely Fine.

Estimate
$600 to $900