Calvin Coolidge was president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Calvin was born on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. John, his father, was a farmer who worked in the Vermont House of Representatives and the state and with other local offices. He helped his father sell apples and doing chores around the store and at the farm. His mother, Victoria, died when was was twelve and his sister Abigail died several years later. Calvin graduated with honors in 1895, with his astonishing grades in his last two years. went to Amherst College in Massachusetts and then at a law firm in Northampton. He was a member of the Republican Club as well as the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He opened his very own law office in 1898. His classmates elected …show more content…
Harding as their presidential nominee in 1920. Coolidge was nominated as vice president, Warren and Calvin beat James Cox and Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the running. In 1891 John Coolidge married Carrie Calvin. He had served six years in the Vermont House of Representatives and a term in the Vermont Senate. He had a variety of offices locally from tax collectors. He was the first vice president that had attended cabinet meetings. As well as performing official duties and giving his speeches that everyone loved. The family of the Coolidge’s went to the Washington parties. President Warren Harding died on August 2, 1923 while traveling in California. While this happened Calvin was visiting his family in Vermont where he had no electricity and no telephone. A messenger came to Calvin to pass on the word about Warrens death. Coolidge gave the first presidential speech to be broadcast over the radio for the whole nation to hear. Coolidge signed the Immigration Act in the same year. Coolidge was nominated for the presidency in 1924. Calvin’s son Calvin Jr. accommodated an infected blister and died several days later because of sepsis. He became depressed but he still won the popular vote with 2.5 million over his two opponents’ totals