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Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he served from 1921 to 1923 as the 29th vice president, under President Warren G. Harding, and from 1919 to 1921 as the 48th governor of Massachusetts. Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, with a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor that…
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politics · President of the United States from 1923 to 1929 · politician · lawyer · statesperson · autobiographer · jurist · also Calvin Coolidge, J. C. Coolidge, Silent Cal Coolidge, John Calvin Coolidge, John Calvin Coolidge Jr., President Coolidge
Born 4 July 1872 · Died 5 January 1933 · Q36023
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2026· 11 entries
“when he [the son] died, the power and glory of the Presidency went with him.”
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“Your President [Noyes] has given you a perfect example of one of those rumors now current in Washington which is without any foundation.”
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Daily Signal: Calvin Coolidge’s Speech for America 150
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Adirondack Explorer: President Coolidge returns to the Adirondacks
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dailytorch.com: Calvin Coolidge's Amazing Record Was Not Overlooked By Everyone. He Was Honored By Reagan.
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thelocalnews.news: Lite Waite: When it comes to putting living politicians' faces on stamps or coins, blame Silent Cal
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Tribute Archive: Calvin Coolidge Tate Obituary | Sorenson Lockwood Funeral Home | Grayling, MI
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Public attention spiked: 16,258 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.2× the usual 3,118, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 11,665 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 3,118, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Marriage and family
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2023· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “When Calvin Coolidge was president, "the country was in great shape."” Historians split on Coolidge.
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2017· 1 entry
The Washington Post rated the claim “"We will be able to fill any deficit hole with additional revenues. And we basically saw the same during the Reagan tax cut, frankly the Kennedy tax cut. You can even go back to the Coolidge tax cut. We will be able to raise more revenues.”” Three Pinocchios.
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1960· 1 entry
His son John, former Vermont Governor Deane C
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1956· 2 entries
Coolidge's son John donated his father's boyhood home to the state of Vermont
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When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts established the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Room at the behest of his widow Grace Coolidge
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1947· 1 entry
By the state of Vermont when they purchased and rehabilitated the childhood home of his mother
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1933· 5 entries
Died 1933-01-05.
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“[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.”
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“Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. That state is most fortunate in its form of government which has the aptest instruments for the discovery of law.”
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“Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.”
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“Advertising is the life of trade.”
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1932· 1 entry
Some Republicans spoke of rejecting Herbert Hoover as their party's nominee, and instead drafting Coolidge to run, but the former president made it clear that he was not interested in running again, and that he would pub
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1929· 2 entries
After Coolidge's series of tax rate reductions had cut the tax rate to 24% on those making over $100,000, the federal government collected more than $1 billion in income taxes, of which 65% was from those making over $10
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And wrote a syndicated newspaper column, "Calvin Coolidge Says", from 1930 to 1931
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1928· 5 entries
Election won: 1928 election.
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Campaign: 1928 election.
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Remarking that ten years as president would be "longer than any other man has had it—too long
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When Herbert Hoover was elected in a landslide
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Coolidge declined to take credit for it and signed the bill in private on May 15
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1927· 2 entries
Coolidge was adopted into the Sioux tribe under the name Wamblee-Tokaha (English: Leading Eagle)
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Which failed owing to a French and Italian boycott and the failure of Great Britain and the U
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1926· 2 entries
With farm prices falling once more, Senator Charles L
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The Senate approved joining the Court, with reservations
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1925· 3 entries
Following Coolidge's reelection
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Coolidge appointed one justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, Harlan F
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Coolidge ordered the withdrawal of Marines stationed in Nicaragua following perceived stability after the 1924 Nicaraguan general election
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1924· 12 entries
Election won: 1924 election.
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The New York County Republican Party nominated an African American, Charles H
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Coolidge delivered a commencement address at historically black, non-segregated Howard University, in which he thanked and commended African Americans for their rapid advances in education and contributions to U
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Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted U
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Coolidge signed the act granting citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States
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Coolidge said that the "You lose" incident never occurred
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The Coolidge administration nominated Charles Dawes to head the multinational committee that produced the Dawes Plan
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Stone was serving as the dean of Columbia Law School when Coolidge appointed him to be attorney general to restore the reputation tarnished by Harding's attorney general, Harry M
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Coolidge ended the US occupation of the Dominican Republic as a result of withdrawal agreements finalized during Harding's administration
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But rising prices convinced many in Congress that the bill was unnecessary, and it was defeated just before the 1924 elections
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Campaign: 1924 election.
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Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1924, which reduced income tax rates and eliminated all income taxation for two million people
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1923· 4 entries
Coolidge addressed Congress when it reconvened, giving a speech that supported many of Harding's policies, including Harding's formal budgeting process, the enforcement of immigration restrictions, and the arbitration of
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Whereupon the new President of the United States returned to bed
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President Harding died unexpectedly from a heart attack in San Francisco while on a speaking tour of the western United States
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1923–1929).
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1921· 2 entries
Career landmark: Vice President of the United States (1921–1923).
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When the tax rate on those making over $100,000 a year was 73%, the federal government collected a little over $700 million in income taxes, of which 30% was from those making over $100,000
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1920· 3 entries
Harding and Coolidge were victorious in a landslide, winning more than 60 percent of the popular vote, including every state outside the South
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Campaign: 1920 election.
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When Coolidge began donating various records and memorabilia to the Forbes Library
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1919· 5 entries
The First World War had ended, and Coolidge pushed the legislature to give a $100 bonus (equivalent to $1,857 in 2025) to Massachusetts veterans
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In reaction to a plan of the policemen of the Boston Police Department to register with a union, Police Commissioner Edwin U
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Career landmark: Governor of Massachusetts (1919–1921).
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Campaign: 1919 election.
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Thrust him into the national spotlight as a man of decisive action
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1918· 3 entries
Election won: 1918 election.
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Campaign: 1918 election.
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Richard Long, but this time Coolidge defeated him by 125,101 votes, more than seven times his margin of victory from a year earlier
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1916· 2 entries
Though his family continued to live in Northampton
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Career landmark: Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1916–1919).
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1914· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Massachusetts Senate (1914–1915).
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1912· 3 entries
Would allow a Democrat to win the presidency
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Was the party split between the progressive wing, which favored Theodore Roosevelt, and the conservative wing, which favored William Howard Taft
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Career landmark: member of the State Senate of Massachusetts (1912–1915).
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1911· 2 entries
The State Senator for the Hampshire County area retired and successfully encouraged Coolidge to run for his seat for the 1912 session
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Was renominated and defeated the same opponent by a slightly larger margin
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1910· 1 entry
Career landmark: Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts (1910–1912).
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1907· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1907–1908).
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1906· 1 entry
The local Republican committee nominated Coolidge for election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives
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1904· 1 entry
Coolidge suffered his sole defeat at the ballot box, losing an election to the Northampton school board
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1903· 1 entry
Coolidge met Grace Goodhue, a graduate of the University of Vermont and a teacher at Northampton's Clarke School for the Deaf
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1902· 1 entry
The city council selected a Democrat for city solicitor, and Coolidge returned to private practice
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1899· 1 entry
The city council made Coolidge city solicitor
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1898· 1 entry
Won election to the City Council of Northampton, placing second in a ward where the top three candidates were elected
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1897· 1 entry
Coolidge was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, becoming a country lawyer
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1896· 1 entry
Coolidge campaigned for Republican presidential candidate William McKinley, and was selected to be a member of the Republican City Committee the next year
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1872· 1 entry
Born 1872-07-04.
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