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President Harding's Thanksgiving Turkey

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President Harding's Thanksgiving Turkey
President Warren G Harding's Thanksgiving turkey being delivered by the U.S. Postal Service.

The caption says that "President Harding should worry about the high cost of turkey - another Thanksgiving gobbler arrived at the White House today." (The box is addressed to President Harding. It is the gift of H.W. Mason of Crystal Springs Mississippi.)

Since the President didn't start pardoning turkeys until after the 1950's, this must be for the White House Thanksgiving dinner?

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
Date & Place: at White House in Washington DC, District Of Columbia USA
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President Harding's (live) turkey dinner delivered by the USPS - back in the days when you could send live poultry through the mail??
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Live poultry is still sent through the mail.
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Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was born on November 1, 1865 to parents Dr. George Tryon Harding III (1844-1938) and Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson (1843-1920). He had siblings Birdie, Charity, Mary Clarissa, Eleanor, Charles Alexander, Abigail Victoria, Daisy, George Tyron Jr, and Caroline Phoebe Harding. He married Florence Mabel King (1860-1924) on July 8, 1891 in Marion, Ohio. Together they had two children, Marshall Eugene Dewolfe (1880-1915) and Elizabeth Ann Harding (born 1893). He served in the Ohio State Seante fromm 1900-1904, and was a Lieutenant Governor for 2 years. He ran for Governor of Ohio in 1901, but lost and later was elected into the US Senate in 1914. He ran for president and although started as an underdog, Warren Gamaliel Harding was elected to serve as the 29th president of the United States. He was a member of the Republican Party and served from 1921 until his death in 1923.
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