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Senator Warren G. Harding (played by Malachi Cleary) is a Republican Senator from Ohio running for President of the United States in 1920.

Character Biography

Senator Warren Harding, (R) from Ohio, is a philandering dark horse candidate for President of the United States. But thanks to a three way gridlock runoff and some the support of some shady but important political allies, he's able to secure his parties nomination.

Relationships

Season 1

Nucky attends the Republican National Convention in Chicago and strikes up a deal with solicitous campaign manager Harry Daugherty- in return for swinging votes to Harding, Daugherty will block Senator Edge from the VP slot. When Nucky learns that Harding has fathered an illegitimate child with Nan Britton, he sweetens the deal by offering to stash her away in Jersey during the campaign. Nan returns with Nucky on the train to Atlantic City, at which point he confesses to falling in love with Harding at first sight. She reads from his love poetry: I love your perfect thighs/When they hold me in paradise." Which prompts Nucky to call Harding an imbecile.

In the final episode, Nucky learns that Harding has been elected the 29th President of the United States. We learn that a fortune teller has told Mrs. Harding that her husband will die during the Presidency.


Memorable Quotes

  • "That man is an imbecile." (Spoken by Nucky)
  • "The field has no first raters and Harding's the best of the second raters." (spoken by Daugherty)
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