Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-06-13
CALVIN COOLIDGE WON
FAME IN POLICE STRIKE
Bay State Governor Became Known
Over Entire Country rs Law
and Order" Executive.
SUCCESSFUL IN LAW STUDY
Passed Bar Examination After
Twenty Months Dclving Into
Archives - Won Gubernatorial
Office by Largest Plurality.
LAY Associated Press. J

ISssreS. June l22;-caivin coolidge.
or, Northampton' Mass. althoush in
ever since, his sraduas!on from Am
herst college in 1895. was little
known outside of Massachuseits un-
~ the Eirea,er part OF the police
September, 1919. Coolidge was
Governor OF the state. He ordered
out the state guard TO patrol the
streets OF Boston. after "a night of
riotinE. announced that law and or
de. would he preserved and declared
that the strikers were dcserters and
that their places would be nlied by
other men.
The strikers never rega!ned their
positions. Troops maintained order
force VAS recruited. The stand TAX
en- by the Governor carried his name
10 all parts OF the country. and in his
named Law and Order Coolidge"
~oConsidcrcd His State First.
As the presidential campaign OF
1920 approached his admirers tried TO
induce him 10 become an active can
ddate for the Republican nomination
publicly that he was not q candidate
and that he considered that while he
was Governor his job was at the
Gavin Coolidge was. born on farm
in the, little Village of Plymouth. W.
on July 4. 1872. His father. in addi-
iip.t ~ CdiI ms on inc ltIUl. was iut
village storekeeper. CoolidGes an
cestors, from the time John Coolidge
settled in WATERFOWL, Mass, in 1850.
were all farmers.
and in the store and attended the
village school. Then he progressed
in his education in academies in the
Vermont towns OF Ludlow and ST.
Johlsbury. andah his father sent him
10 Amherst College. AT the COM
mencement exercises in the year OF
his graduation from college, he was
one. of the class orators.
Studied Inv With Success.
Coolidge next studied law In the
of1Se of law firm in Northampton
TO such good effect that after twenty
was admitted to the bar. He opened
a law office in the same city and con-
,inued 20 practice there until his pub
nc H Haif fs, pSSs of ~ his Mas 'me mem
ber. Of the Northampton City Council
in:lS99. Successfully he was city so
liciior, county. clerk. state Repre-
two years. State Senator for four
years. the last two serving as presi-
dent Of the Senate. and lieutenant
Governor for three years.
In 1918 he was nominated by the
Republicans without opposition for
Governor and was elected by plu-
nominated in 1919. and Asdcd by tho
prestige gained through his relation
10 the Boston police strike. was re-
elected by, Il plurality of more than
$4,000 and received the largest total
vote. ever cast. in the State for
candidate for Governor.
Governor Coolidge was married in
1905 40 Miss Grace. y. Goodhuc. OF
Burlington. VT. Their two children
are both boys. When he was chosen
Governor he did not abandon his
modest residence In half Of n double
hopse in Northampton. but took up
his[quarters in single room in a
district. returning the hundred odd
mixes 10 his home for tho week ends
he Was awarded the honorary de-
gree of doctor OF laws by Amherst.
TUFTS and Williams Colleges in 1919.