William Lloyd Harding (1875 - 1934)

Born 3 Oct 1875 in Sibley, Osceola, Iowa, United States

Ancestors

Died 17 Dec 1934 at age 59 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States

Preceded by 21st Governor George W. Clarke

William L. Harding 22nd Governor of Iowa 1917—1921

Succeeded by 23rd Governor Nathan E. Kendall

Biography

William Harding is Notable.

• Fact: Residence (1880) Goewey, Osceola, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Residence (1895) Osceola, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Residence (1900) Sioux City Ward 7, Woodbury, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Residence (1910) Sioux Ward 7, Woodbury, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Military Draft Registration (1917-1918) Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Residence (1920) Des Moines Ward 6, Polk, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Residence (1930) Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Burial (1934) Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, United States of America
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch William Lloyd Harding (October 3, 1877 – December 17, 1934) was an American Republican politician. He was the 22nd Governor of Iowa, from 1917 to 1921.

William Lloyd Harding, was born in Sibley, Iowa, on October 3, 1877. He later lived in Sioux City. From 1897 to 1901, he attended Morningside College, and then went on to earn his law degree from the University of South Dakota.

Harding entered politics in 1906, serving as a Republican member of the Iowa House of Representatives, a position he held for six years.[2] He also served as Iowa's lieutenant governor from 1913 to 1917 during the terms of Republican governor George W. Clarke. Harding won the 1916 Republican gubernatorial nomination, won the election in a landslide (winning 98 of 99 counties[3]) and was sworn into the governor's office on January 11, 1917. He was reelected to a second term in 1918, and thus was governor during four years which roughly coincided with World War I and especially the United States' involvement in it.[4] During that time, there were "defense councils" in every state,[5] and the entry of the United States into the war followed President Wilson's famous statement "the world must be made safe for democracy",[6] and its companion statement, "millions of men and women of German birth and native sympathy live amongst us....Should there be any disloyalty it will be dealt with a firm hand of repression.”[6]

Harding was convinced that assimilation would heighten patriotism and felt there is a connection between communication and assimilation. He also claimed that all foreign languages provided an opportunity for the enemy to scatter propaganda. Harding became the only governor in the United States to outlaw the public use of all foreign languages. He addressed those issues in an edict whose title was the Babel Proclamation, which prohibited all public communication in any language other than English.[8]

The Babel Proclamation, which forbade the use of foreign languages in public, over the telephone, in school, and in religious services, was controversial, and possibly unconstitutional. It came about due to the large anti-German sentiment during the First World War. Harding's time in office was marred by scandal and other controversy. His hostility towards immigrants and foreign ethnic groups extended beyond Germans and, for example, included Iowans of Norwegian descent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Harding

• Fact: Citizenship United States

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 08 May 2020, 00:21), entry for William Lloyd Harding(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:MZPY-F2R); contributed by various users.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDL4-PBG : 12 August 2017), William L Harding in household of Orlando B Harding, Goewey, Osceola, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district ED 164, sheet 331D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,358.
• "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJ2H-8VJ : 4 November 2017), Wm. L. Harding and Carrie M. Lamoroux, 09 Jan 1907, Cherokee, Cherokee, Iowa, United States; citing reference P 192, county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1,035,292.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMVK-XJ1 : accessed 12 February 2020), Will L Harding, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 63, sheet 14B, line 91, family 238, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 676; FHL microfilm 2,340,411.
• "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24D-SB6Q : 8 November 2017), William Lloyd Harding, 17 Dec 1934, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States; citing certificate #771624, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines; FamilySearch digital folder 101797062.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV3-JZ1F : 26 July 2019), William Lloyd Harding, 1934; Burial, Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, United States of America, Graceland Park Cemetery; citing record ID 6665665, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• William L. Harding on Wikipedia