This position gave Coolidge more experience as a lawyer and paid a salary of $600 (equivalent to $18,439 in 2019). In 1902, the city council selected a Democrat for city solicitor, and Coolidge returned to private practice. In 1904, Coolidge suffered his sole defeat at the ballot box, losing an election to the Northampton school board. When told that some of his neighbors voted against him because he had no children in the schools he would govern, the recently married Coolidge replied, 'Might give me time!' Instead of vying for another term in the State House, Coolidge returned home to his growing family and ran for mayor of Northampton when the incumbent Democrat retired.
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