Background
She was born in Caledonia, Ohio, in 1879, and graduated from high school in Marion, Ohio, in 1898. To distinguish her from her mother, Phoebe Dickerson Harding, she was known by her middle name Carolyn.
Missionary President of the United States
She was born in Caledonia, Ohio, in 1879, and graduated from high school in Marion, Ohio, in 1898. To distinguish her from her mother, Phoebe Dickerson Harding, she was known by her middle name Carolyn.
Before and during his administration. They moved to Washington while Harding was a United States. Senator from Ohio. Mistress Votaw also served as an advisor to the Federal Board of Vocation Education within the Veterans’ Bureau, which caused her name to arise during testimony in the successful prosecution of the Bureau’s director, Charles R. Forbes, on corruption charges.
In 1924, after President Harding died in office, Heber Votaw"s integrity was challenged in a United States. Senate hearing on misconduct within the Daugherty Department of Justice.
William J. Burns, then the head of the Bureau of Investigation, alleged that Votaw called him off an investigation of a narcotics smuggling ring at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, fearing the adverse publicity it would generate. He resigned the following year, citing ill health.
The Votaws lived at 7633 Carroll Avenue in Takoma Park, Maryland.
There, she was an early member of the Women's Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, serving as a probation officer, and running a program for unwed mothers.