 1872 - 1933 (60 years) Has more than 100 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.
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| 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 |
| Headstones |
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| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I170009 |
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| 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) |
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| Family ID |
F42596 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
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 | Birth - 4 Jul 1872 - Plymouth Notch, Windsor, Vermont, United States |
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 | Marriage - 4 Oct 1905 - Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States |
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 | Death - 5 Jan 1933 - Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States |
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 | Burial - 7 Jan 1933 - Plymouth Notch Cemetery, Plymouth, Windsor, Vermont, United States |
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| 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.
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