Quick Facts


 
 
 
President Coolidge
Grace Coolidge

 
Birth Town Plymouth Notch
Home State Massachusetts
Father's name John Calvin Coolidge
Mother's name Victoria Josephine Moor Coolidge
Wife's name  Grace Anna Goodhue
Oldest son John Coolidge, Jr.
Youngest son Calvin Coolidge, Jr.


Facts on Political Career

  • Party: Republican
  • Years in office 1923-1929
  • 1921-1923 vice president of the United States under Warren G. Harding
  • 1919-1920 Served as governor of Massachusetts
  • 1912-1915 Served in the Massachusetts Senate
  • One of Coolidge's personal mottoes was, "If you don't say anything, you can't be called upon to repeat it."
  • Vice President under Coolidge was Charles Gates Dawes
  • Coolidge's father, John Calvin Coolidge, a justice of the peace, administered his son's presidential oath of office in 1923
  • Coolidge had chronic stomach pain and required 10 to 11 hours of sleep and a nap every afternoon
  • Coolidge refused to approve plans for a government operated hydroelectric plant on the Tennessee River in Alabama in 1927

 
 
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