Warren G. Harding Fathered Love Child
Source: TDB/NYT
DNA testing has confirmed that President Warren G. Harding fathered a love child with Nan Britton, a woman who was denigrated as a “pervert” and “degenerate” for claiming so at the time. “It’s sort of Shakespearean and operatic,” said Harding’s grandnephew Dr. Peter Harding, who instigated the DNA testing. “This story hangs over the whole presidential history because it was an unsolved mystery.” Peter Harding tested his DNA against that of James Blaesing, Britton’s grandson, and found that they were second cousins. Therefore Blaesing’s mother, Elizabeth Ann, had to be Warren G. Harding’s daughter.
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they named a bridge here after him. The bridge is about 15 mins from my house and straddles the Connecticut River. I've lived in this area of Massachusetts for 20 years and just learned the Cal Coolidge Presidential Library is in the town on the other side of that bridge (left in the pic), Northampton, MA., home of Smith College
In the decades since, many biographers have dismissed the rumors of Harding’s mixed-race family as little more than a political scandal and Chancellor himself as a Democratic mudslinger and racist ideologue. But as with the long-denied and now all-but-proved allegations of Thomas Jefferson’s affair with his slave Sally Hemings, there is reason to question the denials. From the perspective of 2008, when interracial sex is seen as a historical fact of life instead of an abomination, the circumstantial case for Harding’s mixed-race ancestry is intriguing though not definitive.
To anyone who tracks it down today, Chancellor’s book comes across as a laughable partisan screed, an amalgam of bizarre racial theories, outlandish stereotypes and cheap political insults. But it also contains a remarkable trove of social knowledge — the kind of community gossip and oral tradition that rarely appears in official records but often provides clues to richer truths. When he toured Ohio in 1920, Chancellor claimed to find dozens of acquaintances and neighbors willing to swear that the Hardings had been considered black for generations. Among the persuaded, according to rumor, was Harding’s father-in-law, Amos Kling, one of the richest men in Harding’s adopted hometown of Marion. When Harding married his daughter, Florence, in 1891, Kling supposedly denounced her for polluting the family line.
There were rumors of other family scandals as well: the 1849 case in which “one David Butler killed Amos Smith” after Smith claimed that Butler’s wife, a Harding, was black; the suggestion that Harding’s father’s second wife divorced him because he was too much Negro “for her to endure.” In Chancellor’s book, such stories are relayed with a bitter, racist glee — ample reason not to accept them out of hand. But if none of this had any resemblance to the truth, how did all of these rumors get started?
In 1968, the Harding biographer Francis Russell offered an explanation: Harding’s great-great-grandfather Amos told his descendants that he once caught a man killing his neighbor’s apple trees and that the man started the rumor in retaliation — a rather weak story that Russell declined to endorse and that did not silence the mixed-blood rumors. Well into the 1930s, African-Americans claiming a family link continued to pop up in the press. (One decidedly dark-skinned Oliver Harding, supposedly the president’s great-uncle, appeared in Abbott’s Monthly, a black-owned Chicago magazine, in 1932.) As recently as 2005, a Michigan schoolteacher named Marsha Stewart issued her own claim to Harding ancestry. “While growing up,” she wrote, “we were never allowed to talk about the relationship to a U.S. president outside family gatherings because we were ‘colored’ and Warren was ‘passing.’ ”
a bio of Florence Harding. She was a pretty remarkable woman in her own right, but ol' Warren G.....well, he makes Nixon, Dubya, and Bill Clinton look like a bunch of plaster saints! 
a blip of Nucky meeting Harding with Nan shown in a doorway holding Harding's baby. 
Of course the Nucky character did a "favor" for Harding regarding this little lapse in judgement and had her whisked away and taken care of.
Just kidding, although seeing that here wouldn't surprise me anymore.
