Calvin Coolidge

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Calvin Coolidge 30th President of the United States (August 3, 1923 to March 3, 1929) Nickname: “Silent Cal” Born: July 4, 1872, in Plymouth, Vermont Died: January 5, 1933, in Northampton, Massachusetts

Father: John Calvin Coolidge Mother: Victoria Josephine Moor Coolidge Married: Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge (1879-1957), on October 4, 1905 Children: John Coolidge (1906-2000); Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (1908-24) Religion: Congregationalist Education: Attended Black River Academy; Graduated from Amherst College (1895) Occupation: Lawyer Political Party: Republican Other Government Positions:

• Northampton, MA City Councilman, 1899
• City Solicitor, 1900-01
• Clerk of Courts, 1904
• Member of Massachusetts Legislature, 1907-08
• Mayor of Northampton, MA, 1910-11
• Member of Massachusetts Legislature, 1912-15
• Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, 1916-18
• Governor of Massachusetts, 1919-20
• Vice President, 1921-23 (under Harding)

Presidential Salary: $75,000/year

Vice President: Charles G. Dawes (1925-29) Cabinet:

Secretary of State

Charles Evans Hughes (1923-25)

Frank B. Kellogg (1925-29)

Secretary of the Treasury

Andrew W. Mellon (1923-29)

Secretary of War

John W. Weeks (1923-25)

Dwight F. Davis (1925-29)

Attorney General

Harry M. Daugherty (1923-24)

Harlan F. Stone (1924-25)

John G. Sargent (1925-29)

Postmaster General

Harry S. New (1923-29)

Secretary of the Navy

Edwin Denby (1923-24)

Curtis D. Wilbur (1924-29)

Secretary of the Interior

Hubert Work (1923-28)

Roy O. West (1929)

Secretary of Agriculture

Henry C. Wallace (1923-24)

Howard M. Gore (1924-25)

William M. Jardine (1925-29)

Secretary of Commerce

Herbert C. Hoover (1923-28)

William F. Whiting (1928-29)

Secretary of Labor

James J. Davis (1923-29)

Supreme Court Appointments:

Associate Justice

Harlan Fiske Stone (1925-41)

Notable Events:

• 1924

• • New, more stringent immigration law passed
  • Signing of the Dawes Plan

• 1925

• • Ratification of the Isle of Pines Treaty

• 1927

• • Establishment of US-Canada diplomatic relations
  • Creation of the Federal Radio Commission

• 1928

• • US recognition of Chinese Kuomintang government
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

Internet Biographies:

Calvin Coolidge — from The Presidents of the United States of America

Compiled by the White House.

Calvin Coolidge — from American Presidents: Life Portraits — C-SPAN

Biographical information, trivia, key events, video, and other reference materials. Website created to accompany C-SPAN’s 20th Anniversary Television Series, American Presidents: Life Portraits.

Calvin Coolidge — from U.S. Presidents

From the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, in addition to information on the Presidents themselves, they have first lady and cabinet member biographies, listings of presidential staff and advisers, and timelines detailing significant events in the lives of each administration.

Historical Documents:

Inaugural Address (1925)

Media Resources:

Audio

From a 1920 Fourth of July speech delivered before he was nominated to run for Vice President. Taken from one of the very first sound films ever made. (4:12)

MP3

From the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University.

“Law and Order” from the 1920 election campaign

From the Library of Congress Voices of the Presidential Election of 1920.

Other Internet Resources: Points of Interest:

• In 1924, Calvin Coolidge vetoed the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill. Congress overrode the veto the next day. It became the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, and provided benefits to veterans of the First World War.
• Coolidge opposed America’s entry into the League of Nations.
• He, however, advocated for the nation’s entry into the World Court.
• Calvin Coolidge was in favor of Prohibition.
• Coolidge’s address to Congress on December 6, 1923 was the first presidential speech to be broadcast on the radio.
• First Lady Grace Coolidge was immensely popular, and was voted one of America’s 12 greatest living women in 1931.

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