# Calvin Coolidge

| Calvin Coolidge |
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| Coolidge in 1924 |
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| 30th President of the United States |
| **In office** August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929 |
| Vice President | *None* (1923–1925) Charles G. Dawes (1925–1929) |
| Preceded by | Warren G. Harding |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Hoover |
| 29th Vice President of the United States |
| **In office** March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923 |
| President | Warren G. Harding |
| Preceded by | Thomas R. Marshall |
| Succeeded by | Charles G. Dawes |
| 48th Governor of Massachusetts |
| **In office** January 2, 1919 – January 6, 1921 |
| Lieutenant | Channing H. Cox |
| Preceded by | Samuel W. McCall |
| Succeeded by | Channing H. Cox |
| 46th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts |
| **In office** January 6, 1916 – January 2, 1919 |
| Governor | Samuel W. McCall |
| Preceded by | Grafton D. Cushing |
| Succeeded by | Channing H. Cox |
| President of the Massachusetts Senate |
| **In office** 1914–1915 |
| Preceded by | Levi H. Greenwood |
| Succeeded by | Henry Gordon Wells |
| Member of the Massachusetts Senate |
| **In office** 1912–1915 |
| Preceded by | Allen T. Treadway |
| Succeeded by | John B. Hull |
| Constituency | Berkshire, Hampden, and Hampshire District |
| Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts |
| **In office** 1910–1911 |
| Preceded by | James W. O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | William Feiker |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives |
| **In office** 1907–1908 |
| Preceded by | Moses M. Bassett |
| Succeeded by | Charles A. Montgomery |
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| Personal details |
| Born | John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1872-07-04)July 4, 1872 Plymouth Notch, Vermont |
| Died | January 5, 1933(1933-01-05) (aged 60) Northampton, Massachusetts |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Resting place | Plymouth Notch Cemetery |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) |
Grace Goodhue ​(m. 1905)​ |
| Children | * John
* Calvin Jr.
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| Parents | * John Calvin Coolidge Sr.
* Victoria Josephine Moor
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| Alma mater | Amherst College |
| Profession | Politician, lawyer |
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**Calvin Coolidge** (born **John Calvin Coolidge Jr.**; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States between 1923 and 1929. He was a conservative who supported less intervention in business and lower taxes.

## Family

He was the only president of the United States to be born on July 4. He married Grace Coolidge, and they had two children: John Calvin Coolidge III (born September 6, 1906 - died May 31, 2000) and John Calvin IV (born April 13, 1908 - died July 7, 1924). His younger son died at 16 while he was playing tennis at the White House. He was wearing tennis shoes without socks and died from a toe infection. He was buried at the foot of Hill Cemetery. That may have caused President Coolidge to become depressed.

## Political career

Coolidge served as the mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts. He later served as the governor of Massachusetts. As governor, he became famous because of his response during the Boston Police Strike. Coolidge fired the police who went on strike and gave the jobs to unemployed World War I veterans. He gave to the veterans the same bonuses that the striking policemen were asking for.

In 1920, he was nominated vice president under Warren G. Harding. The Harding-Coolidge team won easily. Harding died in 1923, and Coolidge became the next president. He was inaugurated at his family farm in Vermont by his father, John Calvin Coolidge Sr.

Coolidge finished Harding's term and was elected in 1924 to continue to be the United States president.

Coolidge was president during a prosperous economy, and the country did not face many challenges. He believed that the federal government should be as small as possible. He supported tax cuts and wanted the federal government to avoid intervening in the economy. He was the first president to lead a public celebration of the Christmas holidays.

Coolidge was criticized for refusing to give subsidies to farmers.Also, when a giant flood happened on the Mississippi River in 1927, he did not want the federal government to be involved. That was part of his belief of federalism in which the country's problems should be solved mainly by state and local governments, rather than the federal government.

He did not run for re-election in 1928 and published his autobiography the following year. He died of a heart attack in Massachusetts when he was 60.

His legacy is mixed. People who support more federal government involvement in the economy do not like him. People who support less federal government involvement in the economy like him.

## "Silent Cal"

Coolidge was nicknamed "Silent Cal" because he did not talk much. There is a story that at a dinner party, a woman once told Coolidge that she could get more than two words out of him and that he replied, "You lose."

## Other websites

* Coolidge's White House biography Archived 2005-06-18 at the Wayback Machine