Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, United States on July 4th, 1872 and is the US President. At the age of 60, Calvin Coolidge biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; ; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929.
A Republican lawyer from New England, born in Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of Massachusetts.
His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action.
The next year, he was elected vice president of the United States, and he succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923.
Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small government conservative and also as a man who said very little and had a rather dry sense of humor.Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration, and left office with considerable popularity.
As a Coolidge biographer wrote: "He embodied the spirit and hopes of the middle class, could interpret their longings and express their opinions.
That he did represent the genius of the average is the most convincing proof of his strength".Scholars have ranked Coolidge in the lower half of those presidents that they have assessed.
He is praised by advocates of smaller government and laissez-faire economics, while supporters of an active central government generally view him less favorably, though most praise his stalwart support of racial equality.
Early life and family history
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was born on July 4, 1872, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont—the only U.S. president to be born on Independence Day. He was the elder of the two children of John Calvin Coolidge Sr. (1845–1926) and Victoria Josephine Moor (1846–1885). Although named for his father, John, from early childhood Coolidge was addressed by his middle name, Calvin. His middle name was selected in honor of John Calvin, a founder of the Congregational church in which Coolidge was raised and remained active throughout his life.
Coolidge Senior engaged in many occupations and developed a statewide reputation as a prosperous farmer, storekeeper, and public servant. He held various local offices, including justice of the peace and tax collector and served in the Vermont House of Representatives as well as the Vermont Senate. Coolidge's mother was the daughter of Hiram Dunlap Moor, a Plymouth Notch farmer and Abigail Franklin. She was chronically ill and died at the age of 39, perhaps from tuberculosis, when Coolidge was 12 years old. His younger sister, Abigail Grace Coolidge (1875–1890), died at the age of 15, probably of appendicitis, when Coolidge was 18. Coolidge's father married a Plymouth schoolteacher in 1891, and lived to the age of 80.
Coolidge's family had deep roots in New England. The earliest American ancestor, John Coolidge, emigrated from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, around 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. Coolidge's great-great-grandfather, also named John Coolidge, was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War and one of the first selectmen of the town of Plymouth. His grandfather Calvin Galusha Coolidge served in the Vermont House of Representatives. Coolidge was also a descendant of Samuel Appleton, who settled in Ipswich and led the Massachusetts Bay Colony during King Philip's War.
Early career and marriage
Coolidge attended Black River Academy and St. Johnsbury Academy before enrolling at Amherst College, where he distinguished himself in the debating class. He joined Phi Gamma Delta fraternity as a senior and was lauded for his achievement. Coolidge was profoundly inspired by philosophy professor Charles Edward Garman, a Congregational mystic with a neo-Hegelian philosophy, while studying in Amherst.
Garman's ethics were discussed forty years ago by Coolidge: forty years ago, Garman's ethics were discussed.
Coolidge trained in Northampton, Massachusetts, to become a lawyer at his father's request after graduation. Coolidge began with the normal procedure of apprenticing with a local law firm, Hammond & Field, and a reading statute was enforced with them. Coolidge was introduced by John C. Hammond and Henry P. Field, both Amherst graduates, to law practice in the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Coolidge was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1897, making him a country advocate. Coolidge formed his own law office in Northampton in 1898 with his savings and a small inheritance from his grandfather. He practiced commercial law, arguing that it best served his customers by staying out of court. Local banks and other organizations began to retain his services as his reputation as a hardworking and diligent attorney grew.
Coolidge was introduced to Grace Goodhue, a University of Vermont graduate and tutor at Northampton's Clarke School for the Deaf, in 1903. They married on October 4, 1905, at 2:30 p.m., in a small ceremony that took place in Grace's parlor's house, after her mother's objections to the marriage were resolved. The newlyweds married in Montreal, initially intended for two weeks, but unfortunately had to be shortened by a week at Coolidge's request. Grace has been with my infirmities for almost a quarter of a century, and I have rejoiced in her presence."
John (1906–2000) and Calvin Jr. (1908–1924) were two sons of the Coolidges. Calvin Jr. had played tennis with his brother in the White House tennis courts on June 30, 1924, but he had to put on socks and developed a blister on one of his toes. The blisters then sepsis degenerated. Calvin Jr. died at the age of 16. Calvin Jr.'s death was not excused by the President. Coolidge, son of John, and psychiatric biographer Robert E. Gilbert, author of The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death and Clinical Depression, said it "hurt [Coolidge] terribly." Following Calvin Jr.'s sudden death, Gilbert explains in his book how Coolidge exhibited all ten of the American Psychiatric Association's symptoms as signs of significant depressive disorder. John became a railroad executive, helped start the Coolidge Foundation, and was instrumental in the establishment of the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site.
Coolidge was frugal, and he resisted on buying a house over renting. Before and after his presidency, he and his wife attended Edwards Congregational Church in Northampton.
