Warren G. Harding was ineligible to be President of the United States.
Albert Bacon Fall ( November 26 , 1861November 30 , 1944 ) was a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding , infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal . Warren G. Harding . In historical rankings of the U.S. presidents , Harding is often rated among the worst . He won in a landslide over Democrat James M. Cox and Socialist Party candidate Eugene Debs , running on a theme of return to normalcy and becoming the first sitting senator to be elected president . The Washington Naval Conference , also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference , was a military conference called by U.S. President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington , D.C. , from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922 .