Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from New England, he worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of Massachusetts. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action.
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Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from New England, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of Massachusetts. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor’s administration, and left office with considerable popularity. He is praised by advocates of smaller government and laissez-faire economics, while supporters of an active central government generally view him less favorably. Most praise his stalwart support of racial equality. He was the elder of the two children of John Calvin Coolidge Sr. and Victoria Josephine Moor. His grandfather Calvin Galusha Coolidge served in the Vermont House of Representatives. His great-great-grandfather, also named John Coolidge, was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War and one of the first selectmen of the town of Plymouth. His father married a Plymouth schoolteacher in 1891, and lived to the age of 80. His mother was the daughter of a Plymouth Notch farmer. She was chronically ill and died, perhaps from tuberculosis, when he was twelve years old. His younger sister, Abigail Grace Coolidge, died at the aged of 15, probably of appendicitis, when she was 18. He died on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
He had a son, John Calvin, considered a founder of the Congregational church in which he was raised and remained active throughout his life. His middle name, Calvin, was selected in honor of JohnCalvin, considered an early leader of the church. He graduated from Amherst College in 1872 and was admitted to the bar in 1897. He followed his grandfather, John C. Hammond and Henry Pherst Field, as a lawyer, becoming a country savings and inheritance from his small inheritance. With his grandfather’s urging, he moved to Massachusetts to become a lawyer to avoid the cost of law. He later introduced his grandfather to the practice of apprenticing with a local law firm, Hammond & Field, Hammond and Field, Field, in Northampton, New Hampshire. He also introduced his father to the law practice of Northampton and Northampton counties, Northampton County, Hampshire County, New York and New Jersey. He went on to serve in the Massachusetts House of Reps. and the Vermont Senate as a justice of the peace, tax collector, and tax collector. In 1924, he was elected the 29th vice president, and he succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. He gained a reputation for being a man who said very little and had a rather dry sense of humor. He explained his ethics forty years later: here is a standard of righteousness that might does not make right, that the end does not justify the means, and that expediency as a working principle is bound to fail.
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