President John Calvin Coolidge

1872 - 1933  (60 years)  Submit Photo / Document    Has more than 100 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	John Calvin Coolidge
  Prefix	President
  Birth	4 Jul 1872	Plymouth Notch, Windsor, Vermont, United States
  Gender	Male
  Initiatory (LDS)	COMPLETED
  FamilySearch ID	L85X-GPZ
  Death	5 Jan 1933	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
  Burial	7 Jan 1933	Plymouth Notch Cemetery, Plymouth, Windsor, Vermont, United States
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  Person ID	I170009	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	John Calvin Coolidge,   b. 31 Mar 1845, Plymouth, Windsor, Vermont, United States d. 18 Mar 1926, Plymouth Notch, Windsor, Vermont, United States (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Victoria Josephine Moor,   b. 14 Mar 1846, Plymouth, Windsor, Vermont, United States d. 14 Mar 1885, Plymouth, Windsor, Vermont, United States (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	6 May 1868	Plymouth, Windsor, Vermont, United States
  Family ID	F42593	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Grace Anna Goodhue,   b. 3 Jan 1879, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States d. 8 Jul 1957, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	4 Oct 1905	Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States
  Children	1. John Coolidge,   b. 7 Sep 1906, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States d. 31 May 2000, Lebanon, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States (Age 93 years)   2. Calvin Coolidge, Jr,   b. 13 Apr 1908, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States d. 7 Jul 1924, Washington, District of Columbia, United States (Age 16 years)
  Family ID	F42596	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 4 Jul 1872 - Plymouth Notch, Windsor, Vermont, United States Marriage - 4 Oct 1905 - Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States Death - 5 Jan 1933 - Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Burial - 7 Jan 1933 - Plymouth Notch Cemetery, Plymouth, Windsor, Vermont, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  The 30th president of the United States A Republican lawyer from New England, born in Vermont, Coolidge worked h i s way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becomi n g governor of Massachusetts. His response to the Boston Police Strik e o f 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputati on a s a man of decisive action. The next year, he was elected the 29th v ice p resident of the United States, and he succeeded to the presidency u pon th e sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own ri ght i n 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative a nd als o as a man who said very little and had a dry sense of humor, rece iving t he nickname "Silent Cal". He chose not to run again in the 1928 e lection , remarking that ten years as president was (at the time) "longe r than an y other man has had it—too long!" Throughout his gubernatorial career, Coolidge ran on the record of fisc a l conservatism and strong support for women's suffrage. He held a vagu e o pposition to Prohibition. During his presidency, he restored public c onfi dence in the White House after the many scandals of his predecessor' s adm inistration. He signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 , whic h granted US citizenship to the indigenous peoples of the United S tates , and oversaw a period of rapid and expansive economic growth in th e coun try, known as the "Roaring Twenties", leaving office with consider able po pularity.[5] He was known for his hands-off approach to governin g and fo r his pro-business stances. As a Coolidge biographer wrote: "H e embodie d the spirit and hopes of the middle class, could interpret the ir longing s and express their opinions. That he did represent the geniu s of the ave rage is the most convincing proof of his strength." Scholars have ranked Coolidge in the lower half of U.S presidents. He ga i ns almost universal praise for his stalwart support of racial equalit y du ring a period of heightened racial tension in the United States, an d is h eavily praised by advocates of smaller government and laissez-fair e econo mics, while supporters of an active central government generall y view hi m far less favorably. His critics argue that he failed to use t he country 's economic boom to help struggling farmers and workers in oth er flailin g industries. There is also still much debate between historia ns as to th e extent Coolidge's economic policies contributed to the onse t of the Gre at Depression. However, it is widely accepted, including b y his own Presi dential Foundation, that the Federal Reserve System unde r his administrat ion was partly responsible for the stock market crash o f 1929 that occurr ed soon after he left office, which signaled the begin ning of the Depress ion.