John Calvin Coolidge

Attended the public schools, Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vermont, and St. Johnsbury Academy; graduated from Amherst College, Massachusetts, in 1895; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Northampton, Massachusetts; member of the city council in 1899; city solicitor (1900-1902); clerk of courts in 1904; member, State house of representatives (1907-1908); resumed the practice of his profession in Northampton; elected mayor of Northampton in 1910 and 1911; member, State senate (1912-1915), and served as president of that body in 1914 and 1915; lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (1916-1918); Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2 Jan 1919 - 6 Jan 1921); elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket headed by Warren G. Harding in 1920 on a Return to Normalcy platform; inaugurated on 4 Mar 1921, and served until 3 Aug 1923; upon the death of Harding became President of the United States on 3 Aug 1923; at 02:47 3 Aug 1923 sworn in by his father, a justice of the peace and a notary, in his family's sitting room in his rural home in Plymouth, Vermont; elected President of the United States in 1924, using the slogan Keep Cool with Coolidge; presidency was distinguished by absence of crises, lack of spectacular political leadership, and the expansion of apparent prosperity; supported noninterference in the affairs of business and industry; twice vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm relief bills (1927, 1928); was not a candidate for renomination in 1928; served as chairman of the Nonpartisan Railroad Commission and as honorary president of the Foundation of the Blind. [1]