JUDSON CHURCHILL WELLIVER, WORDSMITH

Abstract

Judson Churchill Welliver, the first full-lime speechwriter for an American president (Warren G. Harding), was both speechwriter and journalist, a Progressive Era writer who believed in the potential of American democracy and industrial strength, if properly regulated, to transform the world. Infused with progressive-minded economic imagery and enriched by his grasp of mythology, history, economics, politics, and literature, Welliver's writings reflected his times and shaped public opinion.