Why was Harding considered the worst president?

Answer 1

because he was not succesful

That's just plain wrong.

An ok answer would be that he appointed some corrupt friends to cabinet positions who inflicted embarassing scandals on his administration. He was also a womanizer, a quality shared with far more presidents than is well known.

However, the best answer is, was he really so bad? Consider that his adminstration inherited a horrible recession, with unemployment reaching 12% at the start of his administration in 1921, and began one the greatest periods of economic prosperity in US history, with unemployment dropping to under 3% by the time he died in 1923. It was not accident, Harding and the Republican congress cut taxes and government spending in half.

Harding was also a civil rights advocate. He reversed the Wilson era restrictions on African-Americans in Federal jobs and made a speech advocating fair jobs opportunities for blacks in of all places Birmingham Alabama, stating that democracy would always be a sham until they received full equality in education, employment, and political life.

Why is he consistently ranked near the bottom? While the ostensible reason was his scandals, possibly the real reason was the Democratic party's use of his rumored multi-racial ancestry for political reasons, as he may have had some distant black and Native-American forebears. What is certain is that his family fought for the Union in the Civil War and were longtime Ohio abolitionists. That didn't go over well, especially in the Democratic party's core Southern constituency of the time.
because he was not successful

Answer 2

Grant made a poor choice of his cabinet officers- many of them were corrupt. He had had no experience as a civil government adminstrator. He served at time when a great leader was needed to deal with reconstruction and bringing the South back into the union. He had a Congress which wanted to take advantage of the South in every way and was mostly made up of politicians in the worse sense of the word, but he was not skilled at politics and was not a quick learner of that skill. The mere fact that he was the general that won the war made his unpopular in the South. So he essentialy did nothing but go along with flow of events .

Answer 3

Most historians consider Warren Harding to be a poor president because he made some very bad/poor choices while in office.

Answer 4

He wasn't- that accolade goes to either Richard Nixon or George Bush.

Answer 5

There were scandals and Harring did almost nothing as president.

Answer 6

Because his administration is remembered mostly for corruptionscandals.