Florence Harding
FIRST LADY TO WARREN G. HARDING // #29
From one of Marion, Ohio’s richest families … but rebelled against her overbearing father. Ended up a destitute single mother.
Taught Harding’s sister piano.
A fortune teller predicted that Harding would win the presidential election and that he would die in office. (She didn’t bother telling him because he wouldn’t have believed her anyhow.)
She was the first woman to vote for her husband in a presidential race.
During their long train ride to Alaska, doctors were so worried about her health that a coffin was secretly aboard the train … just in case. Not even Harding knew it was there. In an unexpected twist, the president ended up in the box.