{"id":261,"date":"2014-04-08T15:20:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coolidgefoundation.org\/?p=261"},"modified":"2015-02-23T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:20:36","slug":"president-calvin-coolidge-life-and-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coolidgefoundation.org\/presidency\/president-calvin-coolidge-life-and-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"President Calvin Coolidge \u2013 Life and Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chronology of President Calvin Coolidge<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1872<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJuly 4<\/td>\nJohn Calvin Coolidge is born<\/a> in Plymouth Notch, Vermont.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1875<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nApril 15<\/td>\nCalvin’s sister, Abigail Grace Coolidge (Abbie) is born.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1877<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeptember<\/td>\nCalvin starts school<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1885<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMarch 14<\/td>\nVictoria Moor Coolidge<\/a>, Calvin’s mother, dies at age 39.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1890<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMarch 6<\/td>\nAbigail Grace Coolidge<\/a>, Calvin’s sister, dies at age 14.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMay 23<\/td>\nCalvin graduates from Black River Academy<\/a>, in Ludlow, VT, as secretary of his class. He gives a speech, “Oratory in History<\/a>.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1891<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAugust 19<\/td>\nAttends centennial\u00a0celebration of Vermont’s statehood featuring dedication of the Bennington\u00a0Battle Monument; hears President Benjamin Harrison deliver an address.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeptember 9<\/td>\nCol. John Coolidge marries Carrie Brown Coolidge<\/a>. Calvin prepares\u00a0at St. Johnsbury Prep School.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeptember 17<\/td>\nCalvin begins Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1895<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJune 26<\/td>\nGraduates cum laude\u00a0from Amherst College<\/span>. Classmates vote for Calvin to give the “<\/span>Grove Oration<\/a>,”\u00a0a humorous address. Calvin Coolidge drops ‘John’ from his name (although he\u00a0continues to sign letters to his father ‘J. Calvin Coolidge’ as late as January\u00a010, 1896) In his senior year, Calvin entered an essay contest sponsored by The Sons of the American Revolution,\u00a0it was open to all seniors of all the colleges of the nation.\u00a0He won the first prize \u2014 a gold medal worth about\u00a0one hundred and fifty dollars.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeptember 23<\/td>\nBegins to read law<\/a> with the firm of Hammond and Field\u00a0in Northampton, Massachusetts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDecember 13<\/td>\nCoolidge wins gold medal from Sons of the American Revolution in a National Essay Competition for “The Principles Fought For in the American Revolution.”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1895-1897<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nStudies Law<\/a> in Northampton, Massachusetts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1897<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJuly 2<\/td>\nCoolidge gains entrance to the bar in Northampton, and later is appointed Republican City Committee from\u00a0Ward 2.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1898<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCalvin Coolidge opens his law office.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDecember 6<\/td>\nAppointed City Councilman from Ward 2.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1900<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJanuary 18<\/td>\nElected (by City Council) City Solicitor.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u00a0October 14<\/td>\nThe father of Calvin, John C. Coolidge, is commissioned Aide-de-camp on the staff of Vermont Governor William W. Stickney with the rank of Col.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1901<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJanuary 17<\/td>\nReelected City\u00a0Solicitor.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1902<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJanuary 16<\/td>\n\u00a0Defeated for City Solicitor by Theobald M. Connor.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1903<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJune 4<\/td>\n\u00a0Appointed Clerk of Courts of Hampshire County.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1904<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nChairman, Republican City Committee,\u00a0Northampton.\u00a0<\/span>Meets Grace Anna Goodhue<\/a>.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1905<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOctober 4<\/td>\nMarries Grace Anna Goodhue<\/a> at Burlington, Vermont.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDecember 5<\/td>\nDefeated for School Committeeman by John J. Kennedy.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1906<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAugust<\/td>\nRents half of the\u00a0double house at 21 Massasoit Street<\/a>, Northampton, MA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeptember 7<\/td>\nBirth of John Coolidge<\/a><\/span>, first child.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 6<\/td>\nElected Representative to the Massachusetts General Court.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1907<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 5<\/td>\nReelected Representative.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1908<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nApril 13<\/td>\nBirth of Calvin\u00a0Coolidge, Jr., second child.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1909<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDecember 7<\/td>\nElected mayor\u00a0of Northampton, beginning a continuous course of public service to March 4,\u00a01929.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1910<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDecember 6<\/td>\nReelected Mayor.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1911<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 7<\/td>\nElected State Senator.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1912<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 5<\/td>\nReelected State Senator.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1913<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 4<\/td>\nReelected State Senator, and subsequently elected President of the Senate by the Senators.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1914<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJanuary 7<\/td>\nDelivers “Have Faith in Massachusetts<\/a>” Address to the Massachusetts Senate, his first address as president of the senate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 3<\/td>\nReelected State Senator and President of the Senate.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1915<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u00a0May 12<\/td>\nSixty-five Amherst\u00a0alumni meet at the Algonquin Club in Boston, Massachusetts for a dinner organized\u00a0by Frank Waterman Stearns honoring fellow alumnus, Senator Calvin Coolidge.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 2<\/td>\nElected Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1916<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 7<\/td>\nReelected Lieutenant-Governor.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1917<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 6<\/td>\nReelected Lieutenant-Governor<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1918<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAugust 7<\/td>\nCoolidge on World War I<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeptember 14<\/td>\nCoolidge on World War I<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 2<\/td>\nCoolidge on World War I<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 4<\/td>\nCoolidge on World War I<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 5<\/td>\nElected Governor\u00a0of Massachusetts at the age of 47.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1919<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJanuary 2<\/td>\nFirst Inaugural Speech<\/a>\u00a0as Governor of Massachusetts: reflections on W.W.I.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeptember 9-11<\/td>\nBoston Police Strike<\/a>. Governor Coolidge comes to national\u00a0attention because of his stand for law and order. In a\u00a0<\/span>telegram to Samuel Gompers<\/a>, President of the American Federation of Labor, he declares: “There\u00a0is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 4<\/td>\nReelected Governor.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1920<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJanuary 8<\/td>\nAddress to the\u00a0General Court<\/a>\u00a0beginning the 2nd year as Governor of Massachusetts.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMay 18<\/td>\nCalvin Coolidge’s stepmother, Carrie Brown Coolidge<\/a>, dies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJune 12<\/td>\nNominated for Vice-president<\/a> by the Republican National Convention meeting in Chicago. Warren G. Harding, US Senator from Ohio, is the Republican candidate for the Presidency.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJuly 27<\/td>\nOfficial notification of the Republican nomination for the Vice-Presidency at Allen Field, Smith College, Northampton, MA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 2<\/td>\nElected Vice-president<\/a> of the United States.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1921<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMarch 4<\/td>\nWarren G. Harding inaugurated as President, Calvin Coolidge as Vice-president<\/a>, of the United\u00a0States. Coolidge’s\u00a0Inaugural Address<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMay 28<\/td>\nElected life trustee of Amherst College Tuskeegee dedication.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1923<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAugust 3<\/td>\nUpon news of President Harding’s death<\/a> in San Francisco at 7:30p.m. on August 2 Calvin Coolidge\u00a0is sworn in<\/a> as President by his father, a notary public, in the homestead at\u00a0Plymouth, Vermont at 2:47 a.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDecember 6<\/td>\nLegislation proposals<\/a> in address to Congress.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1924<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCoolidge appoints special legal\u00a0council to investigate scandals such as the “Teapot Dome<\/a>.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJune 2<\/td>\nCoolidge signs bill making Indians citizens of the United States.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJune 12<\/td>\nNominated for President by Marion L. Burton, former President\u00a0of Smith College at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, nominated for Vice-president.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJuly 7<\/td>\nCalvin Coolidge, Jr.<\/a>, second son, dies at Walter Reed Hospital\u00a0from blood poisoning.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNovember 4<\/td>\nElected President of the United States in his own right. Coolidge and the KKK.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1925<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMarch 4<\/td>\nInauguration as\u00a0President. Foreign policy<\/a> and his relationship with the press<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1926<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMarch 18<\/td>\nColonel John Coolidge\u00a0dies.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDecember 7<\/td>\nFourth annual message to Congress:\u00a0he notes the peace and prosperity. He calls for tax cuts and praises tariffs for revenue. He backs regulation of the radio and stronger national banks. He calls for a reduction in government bureaus which seek to regulate and control the business activities of the people.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1927<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCoolidge farm policy<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJune 11<\/td>\nMeets with Lindbergh<\/a> and awards Distinguished Flying Cross<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAugust 2<\/td>\nFrom summer White House at Rapid City, South Dakota, issues\u00a0statement, “I do not choose to run<\/a>\u00a0for President in nineteen twenty-eight.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAugust 10<\/td>\nDedicates work on Mt. Rushmore.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a01928<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJanuary 16<\/td>\nGives address at Sixth Annual International Conference of American States in Havana, Cuba. (This, and 1905 October honeymoon in Montreal are the only times Calvin Coolidge\u00a0leaves the United States.)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAugust 27<\/td>\nSigns the Pact of Paris, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, considered\u00a0at the time a significant forward step in international relations. Under it 62 nations renounce war as a means of international policy. The pact is ratified by the US Senate and signed by President Coolidge January 17, 1929. Legacy<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a01929<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMarch 4<\/td>\n\u00a0After attending the Inauguration of Herbert Hoover as President, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge return\u00a0to live at 21 Massasoit Street, Northampton, MA.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMay<\/td>\n\u00a0The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge is published.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1930<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMarch 4<\/td>\nEx-President Coolidge dedicates Coolidge Dam, near Globe, Arizona. It was the largest dome dam in the world with a capacity of 1,200,000 acre feet.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMay 17<\/td>\n\u00a0The Coolidges move to The Beeches on Hampton Terrace, Northampton,\u00a0MA.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1933<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJanuary 5<\/td>\nCalvin Coolidge dies<\/a>\u00a0at age 60 in Northampton home from a coronary thrombosis.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a01936<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nApril 17<\/td>\n\u00a0The Northampton City Council appropriates funds to purchase exhibit and book cases, establishing at Forbes Library the first memorial to Calvin Coolidge.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1939<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOctober 12<\/td>\nCalvin Coolidge Memorial Bridge, linking Northampton, MA and Hadley, MA is dedicated. US Senator David I. Walsh gives the principal address and Governor Leverett Saltonstall is the ranking Commonwealth official.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1956<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJune 16<\/td>\nMr. and Mrs. John Coolidge give Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth, Vermont, to State of Vermont as a state shrine. It opens to the public in July 1957.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeptember 16<\/td>\nThe Calvin Coolidge Memorial Room in the Forbes Library is dedicated. Dr. Claude M. Fuess, biographer of Calvin Coolidge, gave the address and Gov. Christian A. Herter delivered dedicatory remarks.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1957<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJuly 8<\/td>\nGrace Coolidge<\/a> dies\u00a0in Northampton, MA at age 78. Born, Burlington, VT, January 3,\u00a01879.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThe Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation<\/a>\u00a0is established.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1968<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAugust<\/td>\nThe Coolidge birthplace, general store and post office at Plymouth, Vermont, is acquired by State of Vermont to be restored.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1971<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAugust<\/td>\nGround broken for Coolidge Memorial Reception Center and Museum, Plymouth, Vermont.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1972<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJuly 4<\/td>\nCentennial of Coolidge’s birth celebrated in Plymouth, Vermont.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nJohn Coolidge turns 90, makes his part time residence in Plymouth, Vermont his full time residence.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJuly 30-31<\/td>\nTwo-day conference\u00a0“Calvin Coolidge: Examining the Evidence” at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAugust 2-3<\/td>\n75th Homestead Inaugural reenactment and celebration at\u00a0Plymouth Notch, Vermont.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMay 31<\/td>\nJohn Coolidge<\/a>, son of Calvin and Grace Coolidge, dies at age 93<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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