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COOLIDGE, Calvin, a Vice President and 30th President of the United States; born John
Calvin Coolidge in Plymouth, Windsor County, Vt., July 4, 1872, but dropped
John from his name upon graduating from college; attended the public schools,
Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vt., and St. Johnsbury Academy; graduated from
Amherst College, Massachusetts, in 1895; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1897 and commenced practice in Northampton, Mass.; member of the city council
in 1899; city solicitor 1900-1902; clerk of courts in 1904; member, State house
of representatives 1907-1908; resumed the practice of his profession in
Northampton; elected mayor of Northampton in 1910 and 1911; member, State
senate 1912-1915, and served as president of that body in 1914 and 1915;
lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 1916-1918; Governor of Massachusetts
1919-1920; elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket
headed by Warren G. Harding in 1920; was inaugurated on March 4, 1921, and
served until August 3, 1923; upon the death of President Warren G. Harding
became President of the United States on August 3, 1923; elected President of
the United States in 1924 for the term expiring March 3, 1929; was not a
candidate for renomination in 1928; served as chairman of the Nonpartisan
Railroad Commission and as honorary president of the Foundation of the Blind;
died at The Beeches, Northampton, Mass., January 5, 1933; interment in Notch
Cemetery, Plymouth, Vt.
BibliographyCoolidge, Calvin. The Autobiography of Calvin
Coolidge. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1929; McCoy, Donald.
Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President. New York: Macmillan,
1967.
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