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Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
President order: 30
Republican
Born in Vermont
Sworn in on 8/2/1923
Age at inauguration: 51
Between 1 and 2 terms

Biography

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the 
United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the
 ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His 
actions during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight. Soon
 after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and 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.

Early life:
Coolidge attended Black River Academy and then Amherst College, where he joined the Phi Gamma
 Delta fraternity. At his father's urging, Coolidge moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, after
 graduating to take up the practice of law. Avoiding the costly alternative of attending a law
 school, Coolidge followed the more common practice of the time, apprenticing with a local law 
firm, Hammond & Field, and reading law with them. John C. Hammond and Henry P. Field, both
 Amherst graduates, introduced Coolidge to the law practice in the county seat of Hampshire 
County. In 1897, Coolidge was admitted to the bar, becoming a country lawyer. With his savings 
and a small inheritance from his grandfather, Coolidge was able to open his own law office in 
Northampton in 1898. He practiced transactional law, believing that he served his clients best 
by staying out of court. As his reputation as a hard-working and diligent attorney grew, local
 banks and other businesses began to retain his services.

Marriage and family:
In 1905 Coolidge met and married a fellow Vermonter, Grace Anna Goodhue, who was working as a 
teacher at the Clarke School for the Deaf. While Grace was watering flowers outside the school 
one day in 1903, she happened to look up at the open window of Robert N. Weir's boardinghouse 
and caught a glimpse of Calvin Coolidge shaving in front of a mirror with nothing on but long 
underwear and a hat. After a more formal introduction sometime later, the two were quickly 
attracted to each other. They were married on October 4, 1905, in the parlor of her parents' 
home in Burlington, Vermont.

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John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the 
United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up ...
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Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States, from 1923-1929.
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Calvin Coolidge , U.S. President Born: 4 July 1872 Birthplace: Plymouth, Vermont Died: 5 
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