Pilgrim's Progress
In March 1915, George Busby Christian Jr., 42, was general sales manager of White Sulphur Stone Co. of Marion. Ohio. That year marked a hegira of Ohio Republicans to Washington, D. C. Harry Micajah Daugherty, a rising power in Ohio politics, was just sending a Marion publisher named Warren G. Harding to Washington as Senator.
Salesman Christian was a Democrat. He had been one of the reading clerks at the Baltimore convention which nominated Woodrow Wilson in 1912. But he lived next door to Warren Harding. In fact one summer day in...
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