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Calvin Coolidge Biography
Calvin Coolidge was the President of the United States at the time when Presidency had lost its credibility. He worked to restore the respect during his term in 1923-1929. He was the 30th President who was “distinguished for character more than for heroic achievement” as said by a Democrat Alfred E. Smith. |
Calvin Coolidge was born in Vermont on July 4, 1872, and his father was the one to administer his oath of office first. Calvin finished his education with honors from Amherst College when he entered politics and law in Massachusetts.
Coolidge was a lawyer whose career can be seen as a steady rise from a Northampton councilman to the Governor of Massachusetts, ending at the Office of the President. As a republican, he was thoroughly conservative, determined to preserve old economic and social values.
President Coolidge was appointed to the Office when the previous President Warren Harding died on August 2, 1923. Coolidge knew he faced least public support, and was even expected to lose the 1924 election. But his genius quickly transformed public support, and he won the elections to be reelected.
Coolidge, although conservative, was one of the first presidents to use modern media like radio, giving the maximum number of press conferences ever before or since.
This 30th President was a man of few words, although a great public speaker and was notably called the “Silent Cal”, that reflected in his subdued campaigns. He was never confrontational and never mentioned his opponents.
Like his predecessor, he followed the idea of isolation and not joining the League of Nations. Some of the bills that he signed were the Immigration Act, Washington Naval Treaty, a bill granting Native Americans full Citizenship and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Coolidge died in his North Hampton mansion on January 5, 1933. He was suffering from coronary thrombosis, a heart related disease. He was 60 years at that time.
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