who became president after harding died?
Calvin Coolidge
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 One legacy of the campaign was the career of William Jennings Bryan . He ran for president a second time in 1900 and a third time in 1908 , each time losing . Through the almost three decades before his death in 1925 , he was ever present on political platform and speaking circuit , fighting first for silver , and then for other causes . Bryan served as Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1915 , resigning as Wilson moved the nation closer to intervention in World War I. His final years were marked with controversy , such as his involvement in the Scopes Monkey Trial in the final weeks of his life , but according to Kazin , " Bryan 's sincerity , warmth , and passion for a better world won the hearts of people who cared for no other public figure in his day " . 

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 In 1920 , Warren G. Harding was selected as the Republican candidate for the presidency at the Blackstone . Although the convention was being held at the Chicago Coliseum , a group of Republican leaders met at the Blackstone on the night of June 11 to come to a consensus . When Raymond Clapper of United Press reported on the decision @-@ making process , the reporter stated it had been made " in a smoke @-@ filled room " . The phrase entered American political parlance to denote a political process which is not open to scrutiny . 

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 Warren Gamaliel Harding ( November 2 , 1865 – August 2 , 1923 ) was the 29th President of the United States , serving from March 4 , 1921 until his death . Harding died one of the most popular presidents in history , but the subsequent exposure of scandals that took place under him , such as Teapot Dome , eroded his popular regard , as did revelations of an affair by Nan Britton , one of his mistresses . In historical rankings of the U.S. presidents , Harding is often rated among the worst . 

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 After the election , Harding had announced he was going on vacation , and that no decisions about appointments would be made until he returned to Marion in December . He went to Texas , where he fished and played golf with his friend Frank Scobey ( soon to be Director of the Mint ) , then took ship for the Panama Canal Zone . He went to Washington , where he was given a hero 's welcome when Congress opened in early December as the first sitting senator to be elected to the White House . Back in Ohio , he planned to consult the " best minds " of the country on appointments , and they dutifully journeyed to Marion to offer their counsel . 

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 The situation that arose after the incapacity of President Wilson , for which Marshall 's vice @-@ presidency is most remembered , revived the national debate on the process of presidential succession . The topic was already being discussed when Wilson left for Europe , which influenced him to allow Marshall to conduct cabinet meetings in his absence . Wilson 's incapacity during 1919 and the lack of action by Marshall made it a major issue . The constitutional flaws in the process of presidential succession had been known since the death of President William Henry Harrison in 1841 , but little progress had been made passing a constitutional amendment to remedy the problem . Nearly fifty years later , the Twenty @-@ fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed , allowing the vice president to assume the presidential powers and duties any time the president was rendered incapable of carrying out the powers and duties of the office . 
