Calvin Coolidge

BIRTH NAME
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

RELIGION
Congregationalist

EDUCATION
Amherst College, Read law with John C. Hammond & Henry P. Field, Northampton, Massachusetts

VITALS
5 ft 10 in / 148 lbs

CAREER
1898-1916 Practiced law, Northampton, Massachusetts
1899 City Councilman, Northampton, Massachusetts
1900-01 City Solicitor, Northampton, Massachusetts
1904 Clerk of Courts, Northampton, Massachusetts
1907-08 Member, Massachusetts House of Representatives
1910-11 Mayor, Northampton, Massachusetts
1912-15 Member, Massachusetts Senate
1914-15 President, Massachusetts Senate
1916-18 Lieutenant Governor, Massachusetts
1919-20 Governor, Massachusetts
1921-23 U.S. Vice President (Harding)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 4, 1924
Popular: Coolidge 15,719,921 (54%) John W. Davis 8,386,704 (29%) Robert M. LaFollette 4,832,532 (17%)
Electoral: Coolidge 382 Davis 136 LaFollette 13

VICE PRESIDENT
Charles G. Dawes (1925-29)

ADMINISTRATION
J. Edgar Hoover first FBI Director, Snyder Act, Johnson-Reed Act (1924); Air Commerce Act (1926); Federal Radio Commission, Great Mississippi Flood (1927); Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT
Harlan F. Stone

FIRST LADY
Grace Anna Goodhue (1923-29)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1930-31 Syndicated newspaper columnist

“To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.”
Message to the National Security League in honor of Constitution Day, September 17, 1923

Portrait of Calvin Coolidge by Charles Hopkinson, 1921.