In the early 1900s which class controlled 30 to 40 percent of the wealth

in the early 1900 the middle class controlled most of the wealth

harding's opponent in the 1920 election was ohio governor and newspaperman james m. cox, who had won the democratic nomination in a 44-ballot convention battle. harding rejected the progressive ideology of the wilson administration in favor of the laissez-faire approach of the mckinley administration.