Abstract
One of the great fallacies of contemporary presidential studies is that the political partnership of the chief executive and his spouse did not exist prior to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Whereas the Roosevelt partnership evolved throughout the presidency from 1933 to 1945, the balance of power between Warren G. Harding and his wife, Florence, was a known quantity before he was even elected president in 1920 and she is deserving of consideration as the initiator of the modern activist first ladyship; in fact, its widespread publicity may have contributed to his election in the first presidential election to be dictated by the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote.
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