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| Occupation: 30th President of the U.S. Bet 1923 and 1929 Washington, DC |
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At 2:30 on the morning of August 3, 1923, while visiting i
n Vermont, Calvin Coolidge received word that he was President. By the light of a kerosene lamp, his father, who was a notary public, administered the oath of office as Coolidge placed his hand on the family Bible.
Coolidge was "distinguished for character more than for her oic achievement," wrote a Democratic admirer, Alfred E. Smith. "His great task was to restore the dignity and prestige of the Presidency when it had reached the lowest ebb in our history ... in a time of extravagance and waste...."
Born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, Coolidge was th e son of a village storekeeper. He was graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered law and politics in Northampton, Massachusetts. Slowly, methodically, he went up the political ladder from councilman in Northampton to Governor of Massachusetts, as a Republican. En route he became thoroughly conservative.
As President, Coolidge demonstrated his determination to pr eserve the old moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity which many Americans were enjoying. He refused to use Federal economic power to check the growing boom or to ameliorate the depressed condition of agriculture and certain industries. His first message to Congress in December 1923 called for isolation in foreign policy, and for tax cuts, economy, and limited aid to farmers.
He rapidly became popular. In 1924, as the beneficiary of w hat was becoming known as "Coolidge prosperity," he polled more than 54 percent of the popular vote.
In his Inaugural he asserted that the country had achieve d "a state of contentment seldom before seen," and pledged himself to maintain the status quo. In subsequent years he twice vetoed farm relief bills, and killed a plan to produce cheap Federal electric power on the Tennessee River.
The political genius of President Coolidge, Walter Lippman n pointed out in 1926, was his talent for effectively doing nothing: "This active inactivity suits the mood and certain of the needs of the country admirably. It suits all the business interests which want to be let alone.... And it suits all those who have become convinced that government in this country has become dangerously complicated and top-heavy...."
Coolidge was both the most negative and remote of President s, and the most accessible. He once explained to Bernard Baruch why he often sat silently through interviews: "Well, Baruch, many times I say only 'yes' or 'no' to people. Even that is too much. It winds them up for twenty minutes more."
But no President was kinder in permitting himself to be pho tographed in Indian war bonnets or cowboy dress, and in greeting a variety of delegations to the White House.
Both his dry Yankee wit and his frugality with words becam e legendary. His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recounted that a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, "You lose." And in 1928, while vacationing in the Black Hills of South Dakota, he issued the most famous of his laconic statements, "I do not choose to run for President in 1928."
By the time the disaster of the Great Depression hit the co untry, Coolidge was in retirement. Before his death in January 1933, he confided to an old friend, ". . . I feel I no longer fit in with these times."
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Individuals from other files that are believed to be the same person:
 John Calvin Coolidge Jr | of The Ancestry of Franklin Dolbel Riding |
| John Calvin Coolidge Sr | of The Ancestry of Franklin Dolbel Riding |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Rains/Watters/Sawyer and beyond |
| (John) Calvin Coolidge | of Rains/Watters/Sawyer and beyond |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Rains/Watters/Sawyer and beyond |
| (John) Calvin Coolidge | of Rains/Watters/Sawyer and beyond |
| John Calvin Sr Coolidge * | of Marsh-Wiggins Families |
| John Calvin Jr Coolidge 30th Pres* | of Marsh-Wiggins Families |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Raymond-Richardson |
| President John Calvin Coolidge | of Raymond-Richardson |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Smith to Royalty |
| John Calvin , Coolidge Jr. | of Smith to Royalty |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of WJD |
| Calvin John Coolidge | of WJD |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of charlies family |
| Calvin Coolidge | of charlies family |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Our Whole Family 7_29_2006 |
| President John Calvin Coolidge | of Our Whole Family 7_29_2006 |
| John Calvin Coolidge Sr. | of Ancestors of Kris Galloway |
| John Calvin Coolidge Jr. | of Ancestors of Kris Galloway |
| Calvin Coolidge President of the United States | of Ballard-Willis Family Tree |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ballard-Willis Family Tree |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of John and Debbie Shuck's Genealogy |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of John and Debbie Shuck's Genealogy |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Canadian and American Rockwoods |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Canadian and American Rockwoods |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors and Cousins of David James |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Relations Plus |
| JOHN CALVIN COOLIDGE | of Relations Plus |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of All2007 |
| JOHN CALVIN COOLIDGE | of All2007 |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE Jr. | of Ancestors of Fred Curry and Kay Kaster |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of cathys-tree-june2006 |
| Calvin Coolidge | of cathys-tree-june2006 |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Cathy Abernathy's Tree 2007 |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Cathy Abernathy's Tree 2007 |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Too Many Kinfolks? |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Too Many Kinfolks? |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of royal-leaves |
| Calvin Coolidge | of royal-leaves |
| LIVING | of Our Groves |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Mason ancestry of Jefferson C Mason |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Mason ancestry of Jefferson C Mason |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of CarterBlake |
| Calvin Coolidge | of CarterBlake |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Carter |
| **Calvin Coolidge | of Carter |
| John C. Coolidge | of Elisha Hulce Genealogy |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of A Family Odyssey 2004 |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of A Family Odyssey 2004 |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of MacLellans et al |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE Jr. | of MacLellans et al |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of MORRELLandHURD |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of MORRELLandHURD |
| Calvin (John) Coolidge | of U. S. Presidents |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of U. S. Presidents |
| Calvin (John) Coolidge | of George Washington |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of George Washington |
| Calvin (John) Coolidge | of Calvin Coolidge |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Calvin Coolidge |
| Calvin (John) Coolidge | of Franklin Roosevelt |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Franklin Roosevelt |
| Calvin (John) Coolidge | of George Bush |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of George Bush |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors and Descendants |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors and Descendants |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors of David Banister Robinson |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors of David Banister Robinson |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of foster-welton |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Marilyn O'Donnell |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Cochoit Database 1 |
| Calvin Coolidge, Jr. 30th U. S. President | of Cochoit Database 1 |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Our Extended Family |
| John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. | of Our Extended Family |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of CarterDodge |
| Calvin Coolidge | of CarterDodge |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of The Benjamin Bull Connection |
| Calvin John Coolidge | of The Benjamin Bull Connection |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of McCarthy, Cooke, Machen, Beers |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of McCarthy, Cooke, Machen, Beers |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Robertson |
| Pres. John Calvin "Silent Cal" Coolidge | of Robertson |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of wprokasy |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of wprokasy |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Hier/Bedard Family Tree |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Hier/Bedard Family Tree |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of new_cwp |
| Calvin John Coolidge | of new_cwp |
| Calvin (John) Coolidge | of Presidents |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Presidents |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Presidents |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Rear Admiral Thomas Graves and Descendan |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Rear Admiral Thomas Graves and Descendan |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors of James R. Carlson |
| (John) Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors of James R. Carlson |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of The Benson-Brugha Family History |
| Calvin John COOLIDGE | of The Benson-Brugha Family History |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of SDadmun |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Martin-Strimple Ancestors |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Martin-Strimple Ancestors |
| Calvin John Coolidge | of Martin-Strimple Ancestors |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Jack & Mary's Family |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Jack & Mary's Family |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Jacob's Ladder |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Jacob's Ladder |
| JOHN CALVIN COOLIDGE | of Edmund Weld |
| PRES JOHN CALVIN COOLIDGE | of Edmund Weld |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of SNOW AND HAWKINS FAMILIES |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of SNOW AND HAWKINS FAMILIES |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of SNOW -HAWKINS-CORCORAN-MCKENZIE FAMILIES |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of SNOW -HAWKINS-CORCORAN-MCKENZIE FAMILIES |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Snow-Hawkins-Corcoran-McKenzie |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Snow-Hawkins-Corcoran-McKenzie |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Barbara Barno's Family |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Barbara Barno's Family |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Deal |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Deal |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Deal |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Deal |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Diehl, Carter, etc. |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Diehl, Carter, etc. |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Carter, Hall, Coykendall, Waggaman |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Carter, Hall, Coykendall, Waggaman |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE Sr. | of Ancestors of Malu Del McDonald |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE Jr. | of Ancestors of Malu Del McDonald |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of McGill-Schneider Family |
| John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. | of McGill-Schneider Family |
| John Calvin Coolidge President | of NEW WALDO FAMILY |
| John Calvin Coolidge Sr. | of Family of Legends & The Unknown |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Family of Legends & The Unknown |
| Calvin Coolidge President | of Family of Legends & The Unknown |
| John Calvin Coolidge Colonel | of Family of Legends & The Unknown |
| Calvin (John) Coolidge | of Mark Martin Geneology |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Mark Martin Geneology |
| Calvin (John) COOLIDGE | of Martin Family Legacy |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Martin Family Legacy |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Martin Family Legacy |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Martin Family Legacy |
| Calvin (John) Coolidge | of Mark Martin 070707 |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Mark Martin 070707 |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Mark Martin 070707 |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Mark Martin 070707 |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of jdhaydon's file |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of jdhaydon's file |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Ancestry of Roy Polk |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Ancestry of Roy Polk |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Sheahan family |
| Calvin (30th Pres.) Coolidge | of Sheahan family |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Jenkins/Naughton/Twyning |
| John Calvin Jr Coolidge | of Jenkins/Naughton/Twyning |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Gowens and Reed Families |
| John Calvin Coolidge , 30th President of the United States | of Gowens and Reed Families |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of June Ferguson's Royal Genealogy Page |
| John Calvin Coolidge , President | of Miller-Kellogg |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Miller-Kellogg |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Jenkins |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Jenkins |
| John Calvin Coolidge, Colonel | of Becker & Zunker family w/ related lines |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Turcottes and cousins |
| John Calvin Coolidge Jr. | of Turcottes and cousins |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Syswerda |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Syswerda |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Stark/Bond/Bowen/York/Brown/Quailes |
| John Calvin Coolidge President Of The United States | of Stark/Bond/Bowen/York/Brown/Quailes |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Our Growing Family Tree |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Our Growing Family Tree |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors of John Conant |
| John Calvin Coolidge Jr | of Ancestors of John Conant |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Descendants of John Conant |
| John Calvin Coolidge Jr | of Descendants of John Conant |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of littlefield to 2004,from edmund to alan |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors of R Reed |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors of R Reed |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of GregFarrarFamily |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of GregFarrarFamily |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of John Calvin Collidge |
| (John) Calvin Coolidge | of John Calvin Collidge |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of FAMILY TREE LEGENDS ged. |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Family Tree Legends ged - Hilton-Stenn |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of FAMILY TREE LEGENDS #! |
| President John Calvin Coolidge | of FAMILY TREE LEGENDS #! |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Draper Genealogy |
| John Calvin Coolidge Jr. | of Draper Genealogy |
| Calvin Coolidge 30th US President | of 2007gedcom |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of 2007gedcom |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Shelley P. Adams File |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Shelley P. Adams File |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of sweet-toomey |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of K&AFerguson |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Descendants of James Carver |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Descendants of James Carver |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of russell tree |
| John Calvin (President) Coolidge | of russell tree |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Borgers |
| John Calvin Coolidge Jr. | of Borgers |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors of Robert Moe & Candace Jones |
| John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., President 30th | of Ancestors of Robert Moe & Candace Jones |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of My Family Jungle |
| Calvin Coolidge | of My Family Jungle |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Steven and Karen's Family |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Steven and Karen's Family |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Lewis/Burt/Seltzer |
| (John) Calvin Coolidge | of Lewis/Burt/Seltzer |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Carter, Hall, Hause, Coykendall, W |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Carter, Hall, Hause, Coykendall, W |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Carter, Hall, Hause, Putnam. |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Carter, Hall, Hause, Putnam. |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Carter, Hall, Waggaman, Hause. |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Carter, Hall, Waggaman, Hause. |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Diehl, Carter, Hall, Badger. |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Deal, Diehl, Carter, Hall, Badger. |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Deal |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Deal |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Ancestors of Ed and Nancy Daniels |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of Ancestors of Ed and Nancy Daniels |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors of Geoffrey Trowbridge |
| John Calvin Coolidge Jr. | of Ancestors of Geoffrey Trowbridge |
| John Calvin Coolidge Jr. | of Robert W. Cameron Genealogy |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Robert W. Cameron Genealogy |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Black-Howe Family |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Black-Howe Family |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Dave Snow Family |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Dave Snow Family |
| Lena W. Ruf | of 40,504 Famous, Powerful & Ordinary Folk |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of merical |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of merical |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of October 2005 |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE Jr. | of October 2005 |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE | of 2006 |
| John Calvin COOLIDGE Jr. | of 2006 |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of July 2007 |
| John Calvin Coolidge Jr. | of July 2007 |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of September 2007 |
| John Calvin Coolidge Jr. | of September 2007 |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors of J Crucius |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ancestors of J Crucius |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ingram3 |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Ingram3 |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Total |
| Calvin Coolidge | of Total |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Mero-Smart Ancestors &Related Families |
| (John) Calvin Coolidge (Jr). | of Mero-Smart Ancestors &Related Families |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of Moon/Doll |
| John Calvin Coolidge Jr. | of Moon/Doll |
| John Calvin Coolidge | of CampFam2007 |
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