Pres. Harding’s right-hand-man Sir Knight George B. Christian, Jr. By Sir Knight James A. Marples, KCT
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ost American Presidents others were ceremonial (such as prochave key advisors and in lamations), and other stacks that were the modern era, most deemed mundane. Usually, George of any given president’s Christian had a keen eye for this type of pivotal advisors are their Chief-of-Staff. paperwork triage. On many occasions, President HardBack in the early 1920’s, the president of the United States and his chief secretary ing and Secretary Christian were almost was Sir Knight George Busby Christian, Jr. inseparable at every public function. While Christian’s name may be virtually This connection began in George Chrisunknown (except to scholars), that man tian’s childhood. His father, George B. played a huge role in the presidency of Christian, Sr., was editor and publisher of the Marion Star Newspaper in ColumSir Knight Warren Gamaliel Harding. It was George Christian, Jr., who bus (a newspaper that Warren Harding scoured-over key documents before would eventually be editor of himself). they were even read by the president. Many neighbors of the Hardings recall Christian essentially did a priorities list George Christian, Jr. playing in the Hardof matters that ranked urgent, others ing’s lawn as a boy. As he grew into manregarded as necessary but non-urgent, hood, George Christian, Jr. (born March
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