Calvin Coolidge

President of the United States from 1923 to 1929

For his grandfather, the Vermont state representative, see Calvin Galusha Coolidge.

"John Calvin Coolidge" redirects here. For his father, see John Calvin Coolidge Sr.

Calvin Coolidge

Coolidge in 1924

30th President of the United States
In office
August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929
Vice President|

* None (1923–1925)[a]
* Charles G. Dawes
(1925–1929)

Preceded by| Warren G. Harding
Succeeded by| Herbert Hoover
29th Vice President of the United States
In office
March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923
President| Warren G. Harding
Preceded by| Thomas R. Marshall
Succeeded by| Charles G. Dawes
48th Governor of Massachusetts
In office
January 2, 1919 – January 6, 1921
Lieutenant| Channing H. Cox
Preceded by| Samuel W. McCall
Succeeded by| Channing H. Cox
46th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
In office
January 6, 1916 – January 2, 1919
Governor| Samuel W. McCall
Preceded by| Grafton D. Cushing
Succeeded by| Channing H. Cox
President of the Massachusetts Senate
In office
January 7, 1914 – January 6, 1915
Preceded by| Levi H. Greenwood
Succeeded by| Henry Gordon Wells
Member of the Massachusetts Senate
In office
January 3, 1912 – January 6, 1915
Preceded by| Allen T. Treadway
Succeeded by| John B. Hull
Constituency| Berkshire, Hampden, and Hampshire counties
16th Mayor of Northampton
In office
January 3, 1910 – January 1, 1912
Preceded by| James W. O'Brien
Succeeded by| William Feiker
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 1st Hampshire district
In office
January 2, 1907 – January 6, 1909
Preceded by| Moses M. Bassett
Succeeded by| Charles A. Montgomery
Personal details
Born|

John Calvin Coolidge Jr.

(1872-07-04)July 4, 1872
Plymouth Notch, Vermont, U.S.
Died| January 5, 1933(1933-01-05) (aged 60)
Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place| Plymouth Notch Cemetery
Political party| Republican
Spouse|

Grace Goodhue

(m. 1905)​

Children| 2, including John
Parents|

* John Calvin Coolidge Sr.
* Victoria Josephine Moor

Relatives|

* Calvin Galusha Coolidge (grandfather)
* Park Pollard (cousin)

Education| Amherst College (AB)
Occupation|

* Politician
* lawyer

Signature|

Calvin Coolidge's voice

Coolidge speaking on government spending
Recorded July 4, 1920

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* Early life
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48th Governor of Massachusetts

* Governorship

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30th President of the United States

* Presidency
* timeline
* First inauguration
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Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.;[1] /ˈkuːlɪdʒ/ KOOL-ij; July 4, 1872 - January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he previously served as the 29th vice president from 1921 to 1923 under President Warren G. Harding, and as the 48th governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921. Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative with a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor that earned him the nickname "Silent Cal".

Coolidge began his career as a member of the Massachusetts State House. He rose up the ranks of Massachusetts politics and was elected governor in 1918. As governor, Coolidge ran on the record of fiscal conservatism, strong support for women's suffrage, and vague opposition to Prohibition.[2] His prompt and effective response to the Boston police strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight as a man of decisive action. The following year, the Republican Party nominated Coolidge as the running mate to Senator Warren G. Harding in the 1920 presidential election, which they won in a landslide. Coolidge served as vice president until Harding's death in 1923, after which he assumed the presidency.

During his presidency, Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the Harding administration's many scandals. He signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which granted U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans, and oversaw a period of rapid and expansive economic growth known as the "Roaring Twenties", leaving office with considerable popularity.[3] Coolidge was known for his hands-off governing approach and pro-business stance; biographer Claude Fuess wrote: "He embodied the spirit and hopes of the middle class, could interpret their longings and express their opinions. That he did represent the genius of the average is the most convincing proof of his strength."[4] Coolidge chose not to run again in 1928, remarking that ten years as president would be "longer than any other man has had it—too long!"[b]

Coolidge is widely admired for his stalwart support of racial equality during a period of heightened racial tension,[5] and is highly regarded by advocates of smaller government and laissez-faire economics; supporters of an active central government generally view him far less favorably. His critics argue that he failed to use the country's economic boom to help struggling farmers and workers in other flailing industries,[6] and there is still much debate among historians about the extent to which Coolidge's economic policies contributed to the onset of the Great Depression, which began shortly after he left office.[7] Scholars have ranked Coolidge in the lower half of U.S. presidents.

## Early life and family history

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John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was born on July 4, 1872, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont—the only U.S. president to be born on Independence Day. He was the elder of the two children of John Calvin Coolidge Sr. (1845–1926) and Victoria Josephine Moor (1846–1885). Although named for his father, from early childhood Coolidge was addressed by his middle name. The name Calvin was used in multiple generations of the Coolidge family, apparently selected in honor of John Calvin, the Protestant Reformer.[8]

Coolidge Senior engaged in many occupations and developed a statewide reputation as a prosperous farmer, storekeeper, and public servant. He held various local offices, including justice of the peace and tax collector and served in both houses of the Vermont General Assembly.[9] When Coolidge was 12 years old, his chronically ill mother died at the age of 39, perhaps from tuberculosis. His younger sister, Abigail Grace Coolidge (1875–1890), died at the age of 15, probably of appendicitis, when Coolidge was 18. Coolidge's father married a Plymouth schoolteacher in 1891, and lived to the age of 80.[10]

Coolidge's earliest American ancestor, John Coolidge, emigrated from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, around 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.[11] Coolidge also descended from Samuel Appleton, who settled in Ipswich and led the Massachusetts Bay Colony during King Philip's War.[12] Coolidge's great-great-grandfather, another John Coolidge, was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War and one of the first selectmen of the town of Plymouth.[13]

His grandfather Calvin Galusha Coolidge served in the Vermont House of Representatives.[14] His cousin Park Pollard was a businessman in Cavendish, Vermont, and the longtime chair of the Vermont Democratic Party.[15][16] Coolidge's mother was the daughter of Hiram Dunlap Moor, a Plymouth Notch farmer, and Abigail Franklin.[17]

* The Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vermont

* Coolidge as an Amherst College undergraduate

## Early career and marriage

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### Education and law practice

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Coolidge attended the Black River Academy and then St. Johnsbury Academy before enrolling at Amherst College, where he distinguished himself in the debating class. As a senior, he joined the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and graduated cum laude. While at Amherst, Coolidge was profoundly influenced by philosophy professor Charles Edward Garman, a Congregational mystic who had a neo-Hegelian philosophy. Coolidge explained Garman's ethics forty years later:

> [T]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. The only hope of perfecting human relationships is in accordance with the law of service under which men are not so solicitous about what they shall get as they are about what they shall give. Yet people are entitled to the rewards of their industry. What they earn is theirs, no matter how small or how great. But the possession of property carries the obligation to use it in a larger service...[18]

At his father's urging after graduation, Coolidge moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, to become a lawyer. Coolidge followed the common practice of apprenticing with a local law firm, Hammond & Field, and reading law with them. John C. Hammond and Henry P. Field, both Amherst graduates, introduced Coolidge to practicing law in the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts. In 1897, Coolidge was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, becoming a country lawyer.[19] With his savings and a small inheritance from his grandfather, Coolidge opened his own law office in Northampton in 1898. He practiced commercial law, believing that he served his clients best by staying out of court. As his reputation as a hard-working and diligent attorney grew, local banks and other businesses began to retain his services.[20]

### Marriage and family

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Coolidge with his family, c. 1915

In 1903, Coolidge met Grace Goodhue, a graduate of the University of Vermont and a teacher at Northampton's Clarke School for the Deaf. They married on October 4, 1905, at 2:30 p.m. in a small ceremony which took place in the parlor of Grace's family's house, having overcome her mother's objections to the marriage.[21] The newlyweds went on a honeymoon trip to Montreal, originally planned for two weeks but cut short by a week at Coolidge's request. After 25 years he wrote of Grace, "for almost a quarter of a century she has borne with my infirmities and I have rejoiced in her graces".[22]

The Coolidges had two sons: John (1906–2000) and Calvin Jr. (1908–1924). On June 30, 1924, Calvin Jr. played tennis with his brother on the White House tennis courts without putting on socks and developed a blister on one of his toes. The blister subsequently degenerated into sepsis. He died a little over a week later at the age of 16.[23]

Coolidge never forgave himself for Calvin Jr's death.[24] His elder son John said it "hurt [Coolidge] terribly", and psychiatric biographer Robert E. Gilbert, author of The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression, said that Coolidge "ceased to function as President after the death of his sixteen-year-old son". Gilbert writes that after Calvin Jr.'s death Coolidge displayed all ten of the symptoms the American Psychiatric Association lists as evidence of major depressive disorder.[25] John later became a railroad executive, helped start the Coolidge Foundation, and was instrumental in creating the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site.[26]

Coolidge was frugal, and when it came to securing a home, he insisted upon renting. He and his wife attended Northampton's Edwards Congregational Church before and after his presidency.[27][28]

## Local political office (1898−1915)

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### City offices

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The Republican Party was dominant in New England at the time, and Coolidge followed the example of Hammond and Field by becoming active in local politics.[29] In 1896, Coolidge campaigned for Republican presidential candidate William McKinley, and was selected to be a member of the Republican City Committee the next year.[30] In 1898, he won election to the City Council of Northampton, placing second in a ward where the top three candidates were elected.[29] The position offered no salary but provided Coolidge with valuable political experience.[31]

In 1899, the city council made Coolidge city solicitor. He was elected to a one-year term in 1900 and reelected in 1901.[32] This position gave Coolidge more experience as a lawyer and paid a salary of $600 (equivalent to $22,678 in 2024).[32] In 1902, the city council selected a Democrat for city solicitor, and Coolidge returned to private practice. Soon thereafter, the clerk of courts for the county died, and Coolidge was chosen to replace him. The position paid well, but it barred him from practicing law, so he remained at the job for only a year.[33]

In 1904, Coolidge suffered his sole defeat at the ballot box, losing an election to the Northampton school board. When told that some of his neighbors voted against him because he had no children in the schools he would govern, the recently married Coolidge replied, "Might give me time!"[33]

### Massachusetts state legislator and mayor

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See also: 134th Massachusetts General Court (1913), 135th Massachusetts General Court (1914), and 136th Massachusetts General Court (1915)

Coolidge as a state representative, 1908

In 1906, the local Republican committee nominated Coolidge for election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He won a close victory over the incumbent Democrat, and reported to Boston for the 1907 session of the Massachusetts General Court.[34] In his freshman term, Coolidge served on minor committees and, although he usually voted with the party, was known as a Progressive Republican, voting in favor of such measures as women's suffrage and the direct election of Senators.[35]

While in Boston, Coolidge became an ally, and then a liegeman, of then U.S. Senator Winthrop Murray Crane, who controlled the Massachusetts Republican Party's western faction; Crane's party rival in eastern Massachusetts was U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.[36] Coolidge forged another key strategic alliance with Guy Currier, who had served in both state houses and had the social distinction, wealth, personal charm, and broad circle of friends Coolidge lacked, and which had a lasting impact on his political career.[37] In 1907, Coolidge was reelected. In the 1908 session he was more outspoken, though not in a leadership position.[38]

Instead of vying for another term in the State House, Coolidge returned home to his growing family and ran for mayor of Northampton when the incumbent Democrat retired. He was well liked in the town, and defeated his challenger by a vote of 1,597 to 1,409.[39] During his first term from 1910 to 1911, he increased teachers' salaries and retired some of the city's debt while still managing to effect a slight tax decrease.[40] In 1911, he was renominated and defeated the same opponent by a slightly larger margin.[41]

In 1911, the State Senator for the Hampshire County area retired and successfully encouraged Coolidge to run for his seat for the 1912 session. Coolidge defeated his Democratic opponent by a large margin.[42] At the start of that term, he became chairman of a committee to arbitrate the "Bread and Roses" strike by the workers of the American Woolen Company in Lawrence, Massachusetts.[c] After two tense months, the company agreed to the workers' demands, in a settlement proposed by the committee.[43]

A major issue affecting Massachusetts Republicans in 1912 was the party split between the progressive wing, which favored Theodore Roosevelt, and the conservative wing, which favored William Howard Taft. Although he favored some progressive measures, Coolidge refused to leave the Republican party.[44] When the new Progressive Party declined to run a candidate in his state senate district, Coolidge won reelection against his Democratic opponent by an increased margin.[44]

"Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation."

"Have Faith in Massachusetts" as delivered by Calvin Coolidge to the Massachusetts State Senate, 1914[45]

In the 1913 session, Coolidge enjoyed renowned success in arduously navigating to passage the Western Trolley Act, which connected Northampton with a dozen similar industrial communities in Western Massachusetts.[46]

Coolidge intended to retire after his second term, as was customary, but when the president of the state senate, Levi H. Greenwood, considered running for lieutenant governor, Coolidge decided to run for the Senate again in hopes of being elected its presiding officer.[47] Greenwood later decided to run for reelection to the Senate, and was defeated primarily due to his opposition to women's suffrage.[48]

Coolidge was in favor of the women's vote, and was reelected. With Crane's help, Coolidge assumed the presidency of a closely divided Senate.[48] After his election in January 1914, Coolidge delivered a published and frequently quoted speech, Have Faith in Massachusetts, which summarized his philosophy of government.[45]

Coolidge's speech was well received, and he attracted some admirers on its account.[49] Towards the end of the term, many of them were proposing Coolidge's name for nomination to lieutenant governor. After winning reelection to the Senate by an increased margin in the 1914 elections, Coolidge was reelected unanimously to be President of the Senate.[50] Coolidge's supporters, led by fellow Amherst alumnus Frank Stearns, encouraged him again to run for lieutenant governor.[51] Stearns, an executive with the Boston department store R. H. Stearns, became another key ally, and began a publicity campaign on Coolidge's behalf before he announced his candidacy at the end of the 1915 legislative session.[52]

## Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Massachusetts (1916−1921)

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Coolidge entered the primary election for lieutenant governor and was nominated to run alongside gubernatorial candidate Samuel W. McCall. Coolidge was the leading vote-getter in the Republican primary, and balanced the Republican ticket by adding a western presence to McCall's eastern base of support.[53] McCall and Coolidge won the 1915 election to their respective one-year terms, with Coolidge defeating his opponent by more than 50,000 votes.[54]

In Massachusetts, the lieutenant governor does not preside over the state Senate, as is the case in many other states; nevertheless, as lieutenant governor, Coolidge was a deputy governor functioning as an administrative inspector and was a member of the governor's council. He was also chairman of the finance committee and the pardons committee.[55] As a full-time elected official, Coolidge discontinued his law practice in 1916, though his family continued to live in Northampton.[56] McCall and Coolidge were both reelected in 1916 and in 1917. When McCall decided that he would not stand for a fourth term, Coolidge announced his intention to run for governor.[57]

### 1918 election

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Coolidge was unopposed for the Republican nomination for Governor of Massachusetts in 1918. He and his running mate, Channing Cox, a Boston lawyer and Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, ran on the previous administration's record: fiscal conservatism, a vague opposition to Prohibition, support for women's suffrage, and support for American involvement in World War I.[2] The issue of the war proved divisive, especially among Irish and German Americans.[58] Coolidge was elected by a margin of 16,773 votes over his opponent, Richard H. Long, in the smallest margin of victory of any of his statewide campaigns.[59]

### Boston police strike

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Main article: Boston police strike

Coolidge inspects militia during the 1919 Boston police strike

In 1919, in reaction to a plan of the policemen of the Boston Police Department to register with a union, Police Commissioner Edwin U. Curtis announced that such an act would not be tolerated. In August of that year, the American Federation of Labor issued a charter to the Boston Police Union.[60] Curtis declared the union's leaders were guilty of insubordination and would be relieved of duty, but indicated he would cancel their suspension if the union was dissolved by September 4.[61] The mayor of Boston, Andrew Peters, convinced Curtis to delay his action for a few days, but with no results, and Curtis suspended the union leaders on September 8.[62] The following day, about three-quarters of the policemen in Boston went on strike.[63][d]

Tacitly but fully in support of Curtis's position, Coolidge closely monitored the situation but initially deferred to the local authorities. He anticipated that only a resulting measure of lawlessness could sufficiently prompt the public to understand and appreciate the controlling principle: that a policeman does not strike. That night and the next, there was sporadic violence and rioting in the city.[64] Concerned about sympathy strikes by the firemen and others, Peters called up some units of the Massachusetts National Guard stationed in the Boston area pursuant to an old and obscure legal authority and relieved Curtis of duty.[65]

Coolidge, sensing the severity of circumstances were then in need of his intervention, conferred with Crane's operative, William Butler, and then acted.[66] He called up more units of the National Guard, restored Curtis to office, and took personal control of the police force.[67] Curtis proclaimed that all of the strikers were fired from their jobs, and Coolidge called for a new police force to be recruited.[68] That night Coolidge received a telegram from AFL leader Samuel Gompers. "Whatever disorder has occurred", Gompers wrote, "is due to Curtis's order in which the right of the policemen has been denied".[69]

Coolidge publicly answered Gompers's telegram, denying any justification whatsoever for the strike—and his response launched him into the national consciousness.[69] Newspapers nationwide picked up on Coolidge's statement and he became the strike's opponents' newest hero. Amid the First Red Scare, many Americans were terrified of the spread of communist revolutions like those in Russia, Hungary, and Germany. Coolidge had lost some friends among organized labor, but conservatives saw a rising star.[70] Although he usually acted with deliberation, the Boston police strike gave Coolidge a national reputation as a decisive leader and strict enforcer of law and order.

"Your assertion that the Commissioner was wrong cannot justify the wrong of leaving the city unguarded. That furnished the opportunity; the criminal element furnished the action. There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anywhere, any time. ... I am equally determined to defend the sovereignty of Massachusetts and to maintain the authority and jurisdiction over her public officers where it has been placed by the Constitution and laws of her people."

"Telegram from Governor Calvin Coolidge to Samuel Gompers", September 14, 1919[71]

### 1919 election

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Main article: 1919 Massachusetts gubernatorial election

In 1919, Coolidge and Cox were renominated for their respective offices in 1919. By this time Coolidge's supporters, especially Stearns, had publicized his actions in the Police Strike around the state and the nation, and some of Coolidge's speeches were published in book form.[45] He faced the same opponent as in 1918, Richard Long, but this time Coolidge defeated him by 125,101 votes, more than seven times his margin of victory from a year earlier.[e] His actions in the police strike, combined with the massive electoral victory, led to suggestions that Coolidge run for president in 1920.[73]

### Legislation and vetoes as governor

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By the time Coolidge was inaugurated on January 2, 1919, the First World War had ended, and Coolidge pushed the legislature to give a $100 bonus (equivalent to $1,814 in 2024) to Massachusetts veterans. He signed a bill reducing the work week for women and children from 54 hours to 48, saying, "We must humanize the industry, or the system will break down."[74] He passed a budget that kept the tax rates the same, while trimming $4 million from expenditures, allowing the state to retire some of its debt.[75]

Coolidge wielded the veto pen as governor. His most publicized veto prevented an increase in legislators' pay by 50%.[76] Although he was personally opposed to Prohibition, he vetoed a bill in May 1920 that would have allowed the sale of beer or wine of 2.75% alcohol or less, in Massachusetts in violation of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. "Opinions and instructions do not outmatch the Constitution," he said in his veto message. "Against it, they are void."[77]

## Vice presidency (1921–1923)

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### 1920 election

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Main article: 1920 United States presidential election

At the 1920 Republican National Convention, most of the delegates were selected by state party caucuses, not primaries. As such, the field was divided among many local favorites.[78] Coolidge was one such candidate, and while he placed as high as sixth in the voting, the powerful party bosses running the convention, primarily the party's U.S. Senators, never considered him seriously.[79] After ten ballots, the bosses and then the delegates settled on Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio as their nominee for president.[80]

When the time came to select a vice-presidential nominee, the bosses also announced their choice, Senator Irvine Lenroot of Wisconsin, and then departed after his name was put forth, relying on the rank and file to confirm their decision. A delegate from Oregon, Wallace McCamant, had read Have Faith in Massachusetts and proposed Coolidge for vice president instead. The suggestion caught on quickly, with the masses craving an act of independence from the absent bosses, and Coolidge was unexpectedly nominated.[81]

The Democrats nominated another Ohioan, James M. Cox, for president and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, for vice president. The question of the United States joining the League of Nations was a major issue in the campaign, as was the unfinished legacy of Progressivism.[82] Harding ran a "front-porch" campaign from his home in Marion, Ohio, but Coolidge took to the campaign trail in the Upper South, New York, and New England - his audiences carefully limited to those familiar with Coolidge and those placing a premium upon concise and short speeches.[83] On November 2, 1920, Harding and Coolidge were victorious in a landslide, winning more than 60 percent of the popular vote, including every state outside the South.[82] They won in Tennessee, the first time a Republican ticket had won a Southern state since Reconstruction.[82]

### "Silent Cal"

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President Harding and Vice President Coolidge with their wives

The vice presidency did not carry many official duties, but Harding invited Coolidge to attend cabinet meetings, making him the first vice president to do so.[84] He gave a number of unremarkable speeches around the country.[85]

As vice president, Coolidge and his vivacious wife Grace were invited to quite a few parties, where the legend of "Silent Cal" was born. It is from this time that most of the jokes and anecdotes involving Coolidge originate, such as Coolidge being "silent in five languages".[86] Although Coolidge was known to be a skilled and effective public speaker, in private he was a man of few words and was commonly referred to as "Silent Cal".

An apocryphal story has it that a person seated next to Coolidge at a dinner told him, "I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you", to which Coolidge replied, "You lose".[87] On April 22, 1924, Coolidge said that the "You lose" incident never occurred. The story was related by Frank B. Noyes, President of the Associated Press, to its membership at its annual luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, when toasting and introducing Coolidge, the invited speaker. After the introduction and before his prepared remarks, Coolidge told the membership, "Your President [Noyes] has given you a perfect example of one of those rumors now current in Washington which is without any foundation."[88]

Coolidge often seemed uncomfortable among fashionable Washington society. When asked why he continued to attend so many of their dinner parties, he replied, "Got to eat somewhere."[89] Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a leading Republican wit, underscored Coolidge's silence and his dour personality: "When he wished he were elsewhere, he pursed his lips, folded his arms, and said nothing. He looked then precisely as though he had been weaned on a pickle."[90] Coolidge and his wife, Grace, who was a great baseball fan, once attended a Washington Senators game and sat through all nine innings without saying a word, except once when he asked her the time.[91]

As president, Coolidge's reputation as a quiet man continued. "The words of a President have an enormous weight," he later wrote, "and ought not to be used indiscriminately."[92] Coolidge was aware of his stiff reputation, and cultivated it. "I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President," he once told Ethel Barrymore, "and I think I will go along with them."[93] Some historians suggest that Coolidge's image was created deliberately as a campaign tactic.[94] Others believe his withdrawn and quiet behavior was natural, deepening after the death of his son in 1924.[95] Dorothy Parker, upon learning that Coolidge had died, reportedly remarked, "How can they tell?"[96]

## Presidency (1923–1929)

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Main articles: Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, First inauguration of Calvin Coolidge, and Second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge

For a chronological guide, see Timeline of the Calvin Coolidge presidency.

On August 2, 1923, President Harding died unexpectedly from a heart attack in San Francisco while on a speaking tour of the western United States. Vice President Coolidge was in Vermont visiting his family home, which had neither electricity nor a telephone, when he received word by messenger of Harding's death.[97] Coolidge dressed, said a prayer, and came downstairs to greet the reporters who had assembled.[97] His father, a notary public and justice of the peace, administered the oath of office in the family's parlor by the light of a kerosene lamp at 2:47 a.m. on August 3, 1923, whereupon the new President of the United States returned to bed.

Coolidge returned to Washington the next day, and was sworn in again by Justice Adolph A. Hoehling Jr. of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to forestall any questions about the authority of a state official to administer a federal oath.[98] This second oath-taking remained a secret until it was revealed by Harry M. Daugherty in 1932, and confirmed by Hoehling.[99] When Hoehling confirmed Daugherty's story, he indicated that Daugherty, then serving as United States Attorney General, asked him to administer the oath without fanfare at the Willard Hotel.[99] According to Hoehling, he did not question Daugherty's reason for requesting a second oath-taking but assumed it was to resolve any doubt about whether the first swearing-in was valid.[99]

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The nation initially did not know what to make of Coolidge, who had maintained a low profile in the Harding administration. Many had even expected him to be replaced on the ballot in 1924.[100] Coolidge believed that those of Harding's men under suspicion were entitled to every presumption of innocence, taking a methodical approach to the scandals, principally the Teapot Dome scandal, while others clamored for rapid punishment of those they presumed guilty.[101]

Coolidge thought the Senate investigations of the scandals would suffice. The resulting resignations of those involved affirmed this. He personally intervened in demanding the resignation of Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty after Daugherty refused to cooperate with the investigations. He then set about to confirm that no loose ends remained in the administration, arranging for a full briefing on the wrongdoing. Harry A. Slattery reviewed the facts with him, Harlan F. Stone analyzed the legal aspects for him, and Senator William E. Borah assessed and presented the political factors.[102]

On December 6, 1923, Coolidge addressed Congress when it reconvened, giving a speech that supported many of Harding's policies, including Harding's formal budgeting process, the enforcement of immigration restrictions, and the arbitration of coal strikes ongoing in Pennsylvania.[103]

The address to Congress was the first presidential speech to be broadcast over the radio.[104] The Washington Naval Treaty was proclaimed one month into Coolidge's term, and was generally well received nationally.[105] In May 1924, Congress passed the World War I veterans' World War Adjusted Compensation Act ("Bonus Bill"), overriding Coolidge's veto.[106] Later that year, Coolidge signed the Immigration Act, which was aimed at restricting southern and eastern European immigration, but appended a signing statement expressing his unhappiness with the bill's specific exclusion of Japanese immigrants.[107]

Just before the Republican Convention began, Coolidge signed into law the Revenue Act of 1924, which reduced the top marginal tax rate from 58% to 46%, cut personal income tax rates across the board, increased the estate tax, and bolstered it with a new gift tax.[108]

On June 2, 1924, Coolidge signed the act granting citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States. By that time, two-thirds of them were already citizens, having gained it through marriage, military service (veterans of World War I were granted citizenship in 1919), or land allotments.[109]

### 1924 election

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Main article: 1924 United States presidential election

1924 electoral vote results

The Republican Convention was held from June 10 to 12, 1924, in Cleveland, Ohio. Coolidge was nominated on the first ballot.[110] The convention nominated Frank Lowden of Illinois for vice president on the second ballot, but he declined. Former Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes was nominated on the third ballot and accepted.[110]

The Democrats held their convention the next month in New York City. The convention soon deadlocked, and after 103 ballots, the delegates agreed upon a compromise candidate, John W. Davis, with Charles W. Bryan nominated for vice president. The Democrats' hopes were buoyed when Robert M. La Follette, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, split from the GOP to form a new Progressive Party. Many believed that the split in the Republican Party, like the one in 1912, would allow a Democrat to win the presidency.[111]

After the conventions and the death of his younger son Calvin, Coolidge became withdrawn. He later said that "when he [the son] died, the power and glory of the Presidency went with him."[112] Even as he mourned, Coolidge ran his standard campaign, not mentioning his opponents by name or maligning them, and delivering speeches on his theory of government, including several that were broadcast over the radio.[113]

It was the most subdued campaign since 1896, partly because of Coolidge's grief, but also because of his naturally non-confrontational style.[114] The other candidates campaigned in a more modern fashion, but despite the split in the Republican party, the results were similar to those of 1920. Coolidge won every state outside the South except Wisconsin, La Follette's home state. He won the election with 382 electoral votes and the popular vote by 2.5 million votes.[115]

### Industry and trade

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See also: Lochner era

"[I]t is probable that a press which maintains an intimate touch with the business currents of the nation is likely to be more reliable than it would be if it were a stranger to these influences. After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."

"President Calvin Coolidge's address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors", Washington D.C., January 25, 1925[116]

During Coolidge's presidency, the United States experienced a period of rapid economic growth known as the "Roaring Twenties". He left the administration's industrial policy in the hands of his activist Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, who energetically used government auspices to promote business efficiency and develop airlines and radio.[117]

Coolidge disdained regulation and appointed men to the Federal Trade Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission, who did little to restrict the activities of businesses under their jurisdiction.[118] The regulatory state under Coolidge was, as one biographer called it, "thin to the point of invisibility".[119]

Historian Robert Sobel offers some context for Coolidge's laissez-faire ideology, based on the prevailing understanding of federalism during his presidency: "As Governor of Massachusetts, Coolidge supported wages and hours legislation, opposed child labor, imposed economic controls during World War I, favored safety measures in factories, and even worker representation on corporate boards. Did he support these measures while president? No, because in the 1920s, such matters were considered the responsibilities of state and local governments."[120][121]

Coolidge signed the Radio Act of 1927, which established the Federal Radio Commission and the equal-time rule for radio broadcasters and restricted radio broadcasting licenses to stations that demonstrated they served "the public interest, convenience, or necessity".[122][123]

### Taxation and government spending

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Coolidge adopted the taxation policies of his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, who advocated "scientific taxation"—the notion that lowering taxes will increase, rather than decrease, government receipts.[124] Congress agreed, and tax rates were reduced in Coolidge's term.[124]

In addition to federal tax cuts, Coolidge proposed reductions in federal expenditures and retiring the federal debt.[125] His ideas were shared by the Republicans in Congress, and in 1924, Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1924, which reduced income tax rates and eliminated all income taxation for two million people.[125] It reduced taxes again by passing the Revenue Acts of 1926 and 1928, while keeping spending down to reduce the overall federal debt.[126] By 1927, only the wealthiest 2% of taxpayers paid federal income tax.[126] Federal spending remained flat during Coolidge's administration, allowing one-fourth of the federal debt to be retired.

State and local governments saw considerable growth, surpassing the federal budget in 1927.[127] In 1929, after Coolidge's series of tax rate reductions had cut the tax rate to 24% on those making over $100,000, the federal government collected more than $1 billion in income taxes, of which 65% was from those making over $100,000. In 1921, when the tax rate on those making over $100,000 a year was 73%, the federal government collected a little over $700 million in income taxes, of which 30% was from those making over $100,000.[128]

### Opposition to farm subsidies

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Coolidge with his vice president, Charles G. Dawes

Perhaps the most contentious issue of Coolidge's presidency was relief for farmers. Some in Congress proposed a bill designed to fight falling agricultural prices by allowing the federal government to purchase crops to sell abroad at lower prices.[129] Agriculture Secretary Henry C. Wallace and other administration officials favored the bill when it was introduced in 1924, but rising prices convinced many in Congress that the bill was unnecessary, and it was defeated just before the 1924 elections.[130]

In 1926, with farm prices falling once more, Senator Charles L. McNary and Representative Gilbert N. Haugen—both Republicans—proposed the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill. The bill proposed a federal farm board that would purchase surplus production in high-yield years, and hold it, when feasible, for later sale or sell it abroad.[131]

Coolidge opposed McNary-Haugen, saying that agriculture must stand "on an independent business basis" and that "government control cannot be divorced from political control".[131] Instead of manipulating prices, he favored Herbert Hoover's proposal to increase profitability by modernizing agriculture. Secretary Mellon wrote a letter denouncing McNary-Haugen as unsound and likely to cause inflation, and it was defeated.[132]

After McNary-Haugen's defeat, Coolidge supported a less radical measure, the Curtis-Crisp Act, which would have created a federal board to lend money to farm cooperatives in times of surplus. The bill did not pass.[132] In February 1927, Congress took up McNary-Haugen again, this time narrowly passing it, and Coolidge vetoed it.[133]

In his veto message, he expressed the belief that the bill would do nothing to help farmers, benefiting only exporters and expanding the federal bureaucracy.[134] Congress did not override the veto. In May 1928, Congress passed the bill again by an increased majority, and Coolidge vetoed it again.[133] "Farmers never have made much money" he said. "I do not believe we can do much about it."[135]

### Flood control

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Coolidge has often been criticized for his actions during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the worst natural disaster to hit the Gulf Coast until Hurricane Katrina in 2005.[136] Although he eventually named Hoover to a commission in charge of flood relief, scholars argue that, overall, Coolidge showed lack of interest in federal flood control.[136]

Coolidge believed that visiting the region after the floods would accomplish nothing and be seen as political grandstanding. He also did not want to incur the federal spending that flood control would require. He believed that property owners should bear much of the cost.[137] Congress wanted a bill that would place the federal government completely in charge of flood mitigation.[138] When Congress passed a compromise measure in 1928, Coolidge declined to take credit for it and signed the bill in private on May 15.[139]

### Civil rights

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Osage men with Coolidge after he signed the bill granting Native Americans U.S. citizenship

According to one biographer, Coolidge was "devoid of racial prejudice", but he rarely took the lead on civil rights. Coolidge disliked the Ku Klux Klan and no Klansman is known to have received an appointment from him. In the 1924 presidential election, his opponents, Robert La Follette and John Davis, and his running mate, Charles Dawes, often attacked the Klan, but Coolidge avoided the subject.[140]

Due to Coolidge's failure to condemn the Klan, some African-American leaders such as former assistant attorney general William Henry Lewis endorsed Davis.[141] Davis got little of the black vote outside Indiana, where Klan control of the Indiana Republican Party caused many blacks to vote Democratic.[142] It is estimated that over 90% of non-Indiana blacks voted for Coolidge.[143]

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was accused of running forced labor camps for African Americans during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which led more African Americans to vote Democratic when Hoover was the Republican presidential nominee in 1928 and 1932.[144][145] During Coolidge's administration, lynchings of African-Americans decreased and millions of people left the Ku Klux Klan.[146]

Coolidge spoke in favor of African Americans' civil rights, saying in his first State of the Union address that their rights were "just as sacred as those of any other citizen" under the U.S. Constitution and that it was a "public and a private duty to protect those rights".[147][148]

Coolidge repeatedly called for laws to make lynching a federal crime. It was already a state crime, though not always enforced. Congress refused to pass any such legislation. On June 2, 1924, Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans living on reservations. Those off reservations had long been citizens.[149]

On June 6, 1924, Coolidge delivered a commencement address at historically black, non-segregated Howard University, in which he thanked and commended African Americans for their rapid advances in education and contributions to U.S. society over the years, as well as their eagerness to render their services as soldiers in the World War, all while faced with discrimination and prejudice at home.[150]

In an October 1924 speech, Coolidge stressed tolerance of differences as an American value and thanked immigrants for their contributions to U.S. society, saying that they had "contributed much to making our country what it is". He said that although the diversity of peoples was a source of conflict and tension in Europe, it was a peculiarly "harmonious" benefit for the U.S. Coolidge added that the U.S. should assist and help immigrants and urged immigrants to reject "race hatreds" and "prejudices".[151]

### Foreign policy

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At the Smithsonian Institution, February 1927. Left to right: Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon; Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg; President Calvin Coolidge; former president and Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles D. Walcott among others.

Coolidge was neither well versed nor very interested in world affairs.[152] His focus was mainly on U.S. business, especially pertaining to trade, and "Maintaining the Status Quo". Although not an isolationist, he was reluctant to enter into European involvements.[153] Coolidge believed strongly in a non-interventionist foreign policy and supported American exceptionalism.[154] He considered the 1920 Republican victory a rejection of the Wilsonian position that the U.S. should join the League of Nations.[155]

Coolidge did not believe the League served U.S. interests.[155] But he spoke in favor of joining the Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court), provided that the nation would not be bound by advisory decisions.[156] In 1926, the Senate approved joining the Court, with reservations.[157] The League of Nations accepted the reservations, but suggested some modifications of its own.[158] The Senate failed to act, and so the U.S. did not join the World Court.[158]

In 1924, the Coolidge administration nominated Charles Dawes to head the multinational committee that produced the Dawes Plan. It set fixed annual amounts for Germany's World War I reparations payments and authorized a large loan, mostly from U.S. banks, to help stabilize and stimulate the German economy.[159] Coolidge attempted to pursue further curbs on naval strength after the successes of Harding's Washington Naval Conference, by sponsoring the Geneva Naval Conference in 1927, which failed owing to a French and Italian boycott and the failure of Great Britain and the U.S. to agree on cruiser tonnages. As a result, the conference was a failure and Congress eventually authorized for increased American naval spending in 1928.[160]

The Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928, named for U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, was a key peacekeeping initiative. Ratified in 1929, the treaty committed signatories—the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan—to "renounce war, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another".[161] The treaty did not achieve its intended result—to outlaw war—but it did provide the founding principle for international law after World War II.[162] Coolidge continued the Harding administration's policy of withholding recognition of the Soviet Union.[163]

Efforts were made to normalize ties with post-Revolution Mexico. Coolidge recognized Mexico's new governments under Álvaro Obregón and Plutarco Elías Calles, and continued U.S. support for the elected Mexican government against the National League for the Defense of Religious Liberty during the Cristero War, lifting the arms embargo on Mexico. He appointed Dwight Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico with the successful objective to avoid further conflict with Mexico.[164][165][166]

Coolidge's administration saw continuity in the occupation of Nicaragua and Haiti. In 1924, Coolidge ended the US occupation of the Dominican Republic as a result of withdrawal agreements finalized during Harding's administration.[167] In 1925, Coolidge ordered the withdrawal of Marines stationed in Nicaragua following perceived stability after the 1924 Nicaraguan general election. In January 1927, he redeployed them there, after failed attempts to peacefully resolve the rapid deterioration of political stability and avert the ensuing Constitutionalist War. He later sent Henry L. Stimson to mediate a peace deal that ended the civil war and extend U.S. military presence in Nicaragua beyond Coolidge's presidency.[164]

In January 1928, to extend an olive branch to Latin American leaders embittered over U.S. interventionist policies in Central America and the Caribbean,[168] Coolidge led the U.S. delegation to the Sixth International Conference of American States in Havana, Cuba, the only international trip Coolidge made during his presidency.[169] He was the last sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba until Barack Obama in 2016.[170] For Canada, Coolidge authorized the St. Lawrence Seaway, a system of locks and canals that provided large vessels passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes.[171][164]

### Cabinet

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Coolidge's cabinet in 1924, outside the White House.
Front row, left to right: Harry Stewart New, John W. Weeks, Charles Evans Hughes, Coolidge, Andrew Mellon, Harlan F. Stone, Curtis D. Wilbur.
Back row, left to right: James J. Davis, Henry C. Wallace, Herbert Hoover, Hubert Work.

Although some of Harding's cabinet appointees were scandal-tarred, Coolidge initially retained all of them out of conviction that as successor to a deceased elected president, he was obligated to retain Harding's counselors and policies until the next election. He kept Harding's speechwriter Judson T. Welliver. Stuart Crawford replaced Welliver in November 1925.[172] Coolidge appointed C. Bascom Slemp, a Virginia Congressman and experienced federal politician, to work jointly with Edward T. Clark, a Massachusetts Republican organizer whom he retained from his vice-presidential staff, as Secretaries to the President, a position equivalent to the modern White House Chief of Staff.[105]

Perhaps the most powerful person in Coolidge's cabinet was Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, who controlled the administration's financial policies and was regarded by many, including House Minority Leader John Nance Garner, as more powerful than Coolidge himself.[173] Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover also held a prominent place in the cabinet, in part because Coolidge found value in Hoover's ability to win positive publicity with his pro-business proposals.[174]

Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes directed Coolidge's foreign policy until he resigned in 1925 following Coolidge's reelection. He was replaced by Frank B. Kellogg, who had previously served as a senator and ambassador to Great Britain. Coolidge made two other appointments after his reelection: William M. Jardine as Secretary of Agriculture and John G. Sargent as Attorney General.[175] Coolidge had no vice president during his first term. Charles Dawes became vice president during Coolidge's second term, and Dawes and Coolidge clashed over farm policy and other issues.[176]

OFFICE | NAME | TERM
President | Calvin Coolidge | 1923–1929
Vice President | None | 1923–1925
| Charles G. Dawes | 1925–1929
Secretary of State | Charles Evans Hughes | 1923–1925
| Frank B. Kellogg | 1925–1929
Secretary of the Treasury | Andrew Mellon | 1923–1929
Secretary of War | John W. Weeks | 1923–1925
| Dwight F. Davis | 1925–1929
Attorney General | Harry M. Daugherty | 1923–1924
| Harlan F. Stone | 1924–1925
| John G. Sargent | 1925–1929
Postmaster General | Harry S. New | 1923–1929
Secretary of the Navy | Edwin C. Denby | 1923–1924
| Curtis D. Wilbur | 1924–1929
Secretary of the Interior | Hubert Work | 1923–1928
| Roy O. West | 1928–1929
Secretary of Agriculture | Henry C. Wallace | 1923–1924
| Howard M. Gore | 1924–1925
| William M. Jardine | 1925–1929
Secretary of Commerce | Herbert Hoover | 1923–1928
| William F. Whiting | 1928–1929
Secretary of Labor | James J. Davis | 1923–1929

### Judicial appointments

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Main article: List of federal judges appointed by Calvin Coolidge

See also: Harlan F. Stone Supreme Court nomination

Coolidge appointed Harlan F. Stone first as attorney general and then as a Supreme Court justice.

In 1925, Coolidge appointed one justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, Harlan F. Stone. Stone was Coolidge's fellow Amherst alumnus, a Wall Street lawyer and conservative Republican. In 1924, Stone was serving as the dean of Columbia Law School when Coolidge appointed him to be attorney general to restore the reputation tarnished by Harding's attorney general, Harry M. Daugherty.[177]

It does not appear that Coolidge considered appointing anyone other than Stone, although Stone urged him to appoint Benjamin N. Cardozo.[178] Stone proved to be a firm believer in judicial restraint and was regarded as one of the court's three liberal justices who often voted to uphold New Deal legislation.[179] President Franklin D. Roosevelt later appointed Stone chief justice.

Coolidge nominated 17 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals and 61 to the United States district courts. He appointed judges to various specialty courts, including Genevieve R. Cline, who became the first woman named to the federal judiciary when Coolidge placed her on the United States Customs Court in 1928.[180] Coolidge signed the Judiciary Act of 1925 into law, allowing the Supreme Court more discretion over its workload.

### 1928 election

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Main article: 1928 United States presidential election

In the summer of 1927, Coolidge vacationed in the Black Hills of South Dakota. While on vacation, he issued a terse statement that he would not seek a second full term as president: "I do not choose to run for President in 1928."[181] After allowing the reporters to take that in, Coolidge elaborated. "If I take another term, I will be in the White House till 1933 … Ten years in Washington is longer than any other man has had it—too long!"[182]

In his memoirs, Coolidge explained his decision not to run: "The Presidential office takes a heavy toll of those who occupy it and those who are dear to them. While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel is beyond our strength to accomplish."[183]

After leaving office, he and Grace returned to Northampton, where he wrote his memoirs. The Republicans retained the White House in 1928 when Herbert Hoover was elected in a landslide. Coolidge was reluctant to endorse Hoover. On one occasion he remarked, "for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice—all of it bad."[184] But Coolidge had no desire to split the party by publicly opposing Hoover's nomination.[185]

## Post-presidency (1929–1933)

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Coolidge receiving grapefruit at the Florida Orange Festival, 1930

After his presidency, Coolidge retired to a spacious home in Northampton, "The Beeches".[186] He kept a Hacker runabout boat on the Connecticut River, and local boating enthusiasts often observed him on the water. During this time, he chaired the Non-Partisan Railroad Commission, an entity several banks and corporations created to survey the country's long-term transportation needs and make recommendations for improvements. He was an honorary president of the American Foundation for the Blind, a director of New York Life Insurance Company, president of the American Antiquarian Society, and a trustee of Amherst College.[187]

Coolidge published his autobiography in 1929 and wrote a syndicated newspaper column, "Calvin Coolidge Says", from 1930 to 1931.[188] Faced with looming defeat in 1932, some Republicans spoke of rejecting Herbert Hoover as their party's nominee, and instead drafting Coolidge to run, but the former President made it clear that he was not interested in running again, and that he would publicly repudiate any effort to draft him, should it come about.[189] Hoover was renominated, and Coolidge made several radio addresses in support of him. Hoover lost the general election to Franklin D. Roosevelt in a landslide.[190]

## Death

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Coolidge died suddenly of coronary thrombosis at The Beeches on January 5, 1933, at 12:45 p.m., aged 60.[191] Shortly before his death, he told an old friend, "I feel I no longer fit in with these times."[192] Coolidge is buried in Plymouth Notch Cemetery in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. The nearby family home is maintained as one of the original buildings on the Calvin Coolidge Homestead District site. In July 1972, the State of Vermont dedicated a new visitors' center nearby to mark Coolidge's 100th birthday.

## Legacy

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President Ronald Reagan in the White House Cabinet Room with a portrait of Coolidge in the background.

Despite being one of the most popular U.S. presidents while in office, Coolidge is generally rated below average by modern historians. David Greenberg, a scholar from Rutgers University, said, "although the public liked and admired Calvin Coolidge during his tenure, the Great Depression that began in 1929 seriously eroded his reputation and changed public opinion about his policies".[193]

Historians have criticized Coolidge for his lack of assertiveness and have called him a "do nothing president" who enjoyed high public approval only because he was in office when things were going well around the world.[194][195] Some historians have scrutinized Coolidge for signing laws that broadened federal regulatory authority and say it paved the way for corruption in future presidential administrations.[196]

In a 1982 Chicago Tribune survey of 49 historians, Coolidge was ranked the eighth-worst U.S. president.[197] In 2006, British journalist William Shawcross said he believed Coolidge was the worst president of the 20th century.[198] In a 2021 C-SPAN survey, historians ranked Coolidge 24th out of 44 presidents. They gave him high ratings for "moral authority" and "administrative skills" but poor ratings for "setting an agenda" and "pursuing equal justice".[199]

Although historians generally view Coolidge unfavorably, his hands-off government approach continues to resonate with modern conservatives and Republican politicians.[200] In 1981, President Ronald Reagan publicly praised Coolidge's laissez-faire policy.[193] Later, Reagan had a portrait of Thomas Jefferson in the White House Cabinet Room replaced by one of Coolidge.[201][202][203][204]

## Radio, film, and commemorations

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Despite his reputation as a quiet and even reclusive politician, Coolidge made use of the new medium of radio and made radio history several times while president. He made himself available to reporters, giving 520 press conferences, meeting with reporters more regularly than any president before or since.[205] Coolidge's second inauguration was the first presidential inauguration broadcast on radio. On December 6, 1923, his speech to Congress was broadcast on radio,[206] the first presidential radio address.[207]

Coolidge signed the Radio Act of 1927, which assigned regulation of radio to the newly created Federal Radio Commission. On August 11, 1924, Theodore W. Case, using the Phonofilm sound-on-film process he developed for Lee de Forest, filmed Coolidge on the White House lawn, making him the first president to appear in a sound film, President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds.[208][209] When Charles Lindbergh arrived in Washington on a U.S. Navy ship after his celebrated 1927 trans-Atlantic flight, Coolidge welcomed him back to the U.S. and presented him with the Medal of Honor,[210] and the event was filmed.[211]

* Official presidential portrait of Coolidge, 1932

* The Sesquicentennial of American Independence Half Dollar, minted in 1926

* Coolidge on a 1938 postage stamp

* Coolidge with reporters and cameramen, 1924

* Collection of video clips of President Coolidge

## See also

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* Coolidge, Arizona
* Coolidge Dam
* List of things named after Calvin Coolidge
* Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
* SS President Coolidge

General:

* List of presidents of the United States
* List of presidents of the United States by previous experience

## Notes

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1. ^ Coolidge was vice president under Warren G. Harding and became president upon Harding's death on August 2, 1923. As this was prior to the adoption of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1967, a vacancy in the office of vice president was not filled until the next ensuing election and inauguration.
2. ^ Eleven years later, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to his third term and ultimately served over 12 years as president before he died in office.
3. ^ See also the main article, Lawrence textile strike, for a full description.
4. ^ The exact total was 1,117 out of 1,544[63]
5. ^ The tally was Coolidge 317,774, Long 192,673.[72]

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## Works cited

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### About Coolidge and his era

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* "Confirms Daugherty's Story of Coolidge's Second Oath". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. Associated Press. February 2, 1932. p. 1C. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
* Barry, John M. (1997). Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0684840024.
* Buckley, Kerry W. (December 2003). "A President for the 'Great Silent Majority': Bruce Barton's Construction of Calvin Coolidge". The New England Quarterly. 76 (4): 593–626\. doi:10.2307/1559844. ISSN 0028-4866. JSTOR 1559844.
* Bryson, Bill (2013), One Summer: America, 1927, New York: Doubleday, ISBN 978-0767919401
* Clemens, Cyril; Daggett, Athern P. (1945), "Coolidge's "I Do Not Choose to Run": Granite or Putty?", The New England Quarterly, 18 (2): 147–163, doi:10.2307/361282, JSTOR 361282
* Cordery, Stacy A. (2008). Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143114277.
* Deloria, Vincent (1992). American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0806124247.
* Ferrell, Robert H. (1998). The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0700608928.
* Freeman, Jo (2002). A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 978-0847698059.
* de Forest, Lee (1924). "President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Ground (1924)". Retrieved February 4, 2007.
* Fuess, Claude Moore (1940). Calvin Coolidge: The Man from Vermont. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1406756739. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
* Galston, Miriam (November 1995). "Activism and Restraint: The Evolution of Harlan Fiske Stone's Judicial Philosophy". Tulane Law Revue. 70: 137.
* Gilbert, Robert E. (2005). "Calvin Coolidge's Tragic Presidency: the Political Effects of Bereavement and Depression". Journal of American Studies. 39 (1): 87–109\. doi:10.1017/S0021875805009266. JSTOR 27557598.
* Greenberg, David (2006). Calvin Coolidge. The American Presidents Series. Times Books. ISBN 978-0805069570.
* Handler, Milton C. (December 1995). "Clerking for Justice Harlan Fiske Stone". Journal of Supreme Court History. 20 (1): 113–122\. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5818.1995.tb00098.x. ISSN 1059-4329. S2CID 145379304.
* Historian (2018). "Travels of President Calvin Coolidge". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
* Kappler, Charles (1929). "Indian affairs: laws and treaties Vol. IV, Treaties". Government Printing Office. Archived from the original on October 11, 2008. Retrieved October 14, 2008.
* Kim, Susanna (December 18, 2014). "Here's What Happened the Last Time a US President Visited Cuba". ABC News. Archived from the original on January 6, 2017. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
* Landry, Alysa (July 26, 2016). "First Sitting Prez Adopted by Tribe Starts Desecration of Mount Rushmore". IndianCountryToday.com. Archived from the original on August 4, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
* Madsen, Deborah L., ed. (2015). The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature. Routledge. p. 168\. ISBN 978-1317693192.
* Martin, Douglas (June 4, 2000). "John Coolidge, Guardian of President's Legacy. Dies at 93". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
* McCoy, Donald R. (1967). Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1468017779.
* Miller Center (2016). "Calvin Coolidge: Foreign Affairs". millercenter.org. Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. Archived from the original on February 20, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
* Polsky, Andrew J.; Tkacheva, Olesya (Winter 2002). "Legacies versus Politics: Herbert Hoover, Partisan Conflict, and the Symbolic Appeal of Associationalism in the 1920s" (PDF). International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 16 (2): 207–235\. doi:10.1023/A:1020525029722. hdl:2027.42/43975. JSTOR 20020160. S2CID 142508983. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 20, 2017.
* Roberts, Gary Boyd (1995). "Ancestors of American Presidents". The Bimonthly Newsletter of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. 15: 199.
* Roberts, Jason (2014). "The Biographical Legacy of Calvin Coolidge and the 1924 Presidential Election". In Katherine A. S. Sibley (ed.). A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 978-1118834473.
* Rusnak, Robert J. (Spring 1983). "Andrew W. Mellon: Reluctant Kingmaker". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 13 (2): 269–278\. JSTOR 27547924.
* Russell, Francis (1975). A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807050330.
* Senate Historian (2014). "Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President (1925–1929)". US Senate. Archived from the original on November 6, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
* Shlaes, Amity (2013). Coolidge. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0061967559.
* Sobel, Robert (1998a). Coolidge: An American Enigma. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-0895264107.
* Sobel, Robert (1998b). "Coolidge and American Business". John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. Archived from the original on March 8, 2006.
* White, William Allen (1938). A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge. Macmillan.

### By Coolidge

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* Coolidge, Calvin (1919). Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd ed.). Houghton Mifflin.
* Coolidge, Calvin (2004) [1926]. Foundations of the Republic: Speeches and Addresses. University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 978-1410215987.
* Coolidge, Calvin (1929). The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. Cosmopolitan Book Corp. ISBN 978-0944951033. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
* Coolidge, Calvin (2001). Peter Hannaford (ed.). The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century. Images From The Past, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1884592331.

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* Resources in other libraries

* Ferrell, Robert H. (2008). Grace Coolidge: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White House. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0700615636. LCCN 2007045737.
* Felzenberg, Alvin S. (Fall 1998). "Calvin Coolidge and Race: His Record in Dealing with the Racial Tensions of the 1920s". New England Journal of History. 55 (1): 83–96.
* Fuess, Claude M. (1953), "Calvin Coolidge – Twenty Years After" (PDF), Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 63 (2): 351–369
* Hatfield, Mark O. (1997). "Calvin Coolidge (1921–1923)". Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789–1993. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 347–354.
* Postell, Joseph W. "Roaring Against Progressivism: The Principled Conservatism of Calvin Coolidge," in Joseph W. Postell and Johnathan O'Neill, eds. Toward an American Conservatism: Constitutional Conservatism during the Progressive Era (2013) pp. 181–208.
* Russell, Francis. "Coolidge and the Boston Police Strike." Antioch Review 16#4 (1956), pp. 403–15. online
* Tacoma, Thomas J. The Political Thought of Calvin Coolidge: Burkean Americanist (Lexington Books, 2020).
* Tacoma, Thomas. "Calvin Coolidge and the Great Depression: A New Assessment." Independent Review 24.3 (2019): 361–380. online
* Zibel, Howard J. "The Role of Calvin Coolidge in the Boston Police Strike of 1919," Industrial and Labor Relations Forum 6, no. 3 (November 1969): 299–318

### Primary sources

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* Coolidge, Calvin (1964). Howard H. Quint and Robert H. Ferrell (ed.). The Talkative President: The Off–the–Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge. University of Massachusetts Press. Archived from the original on June 23, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
* Coolidge, Grace (1992). Wikander, Lawrence E.; Ferrell, Robert H. (eds.). Grace Coolidge: An Autobiography. High Plains Pub. Co. ISBN 978-1881019015. LCCN 92072825.

## External links

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Calvin Coolidge at Wikipedia's sister projects

* Definitions from Wiktionary
* Media from Commons
* Quotations from Wikiquote
* Texts from Wikisource

External videos

Q&A interview with Amity Shlaes on Coolidge, February 10, 2013, C-SPAN
Booknotes interview with Robert Sobel on Coolidge: An American Enigma, August 30, 1998, C-SPAN

Biographical information

* White House biography
*   * United States Congress. "Calvin Coolidge (id: C000738)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Digital collections

* Works by Calvin Coolidge in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
* Works by Calvin Coolidge at Project Gutenberg
* Works by or about Calvin Coolidge at the Internet Archive
* Text of a number of Coolidge speeches, Miller Center of Public Affairs

Physical collections

* Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum
* Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation
* Calvin Coolidge: A Resource Guide, Library of Congress
* Calvin Coolidge Personal Manuscripts

Other

* Calvin Coolidge collected news and commentary at The New York Times
* President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Ground, the first presidential film with sound recording
* "Life Portrait of Calvin Coolidge", from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits, September 27, 1999
* Appearances on C-SPAN
* Calvin Coolidge at IMDb
* Newspaper clippings about Calvin Coolidge in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

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Calvin Coolidge

* 30th President of the United States (1923–1929)
* 29th Vice President of the United States (1921–1923)
* 48th Governor of Massachusetts (1919–1921)

Life|

* Early life and family history
* Boyhood home and first inauguration site
* gravesite
* Calvin Coolidge House
* Early career and marriage
* Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Massachusetts
* Boston police strike (1919)
* Vice Presidency
* Retirement and death
* Presidential Library and Museum

Presidency
(timeline)|

* First inauguration
* Second inauguration
* Industry and trade
* Taxation (Revenue Act of 1924, Revenue Act of 1926, Revenue Act of 1928)
* Allegheny National Forest
* Civil rights (Indian Citizenship Act of 1924)
* Immigration Act of 1924
* Clarke–McNary Act
* Oil Pollution Act of 1924
* World War Adjusted Compensation Act (1924)
* Opposition to farm subsidies (McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill)
* Judiciary Act of 1925
* Federal Corrupt Practices Act Amendments of 1925
* Railway Labor Act
* Passport Act of 1926
* Flood control (Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, Flood Control Act of 1928)
* State of the Union Addresses (1926
* 1927)
* "I do not choose to run" (1927)
* Radio Act of 1927
* Federal Radio Commission
* Equal-time rule
* McFadden Act (1927)
* Brave Little State of Vermont speech (1928)
* McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928
* Migratory Bird Conservation Act
* Reed–Jenkins Act
* Foreign policy (Banana Wars, United States occupation of Nicaragua (1912–1933), United States occupation of Haiti (1915–1934), United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924), Washington Naval Treaty (1922), Kellogg–Briand Pact (1928)
* Presidential transition of Herbert Hoover
* Cabinet
* Judicial appointments
* Harlan F. Stone Supreme Court nomination

Elections|

* 1918 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
* 1919 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
* 1920 Republican National Convention
* 1920 United States presidential election
* transition
* 1924 Republican National Convention
* 1924 United States presidential election

Books|

* The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929)

Public image|

* Things named after Coolidge
* Sesquicentennial half dollar
* U.S. postage stamps
* Coolidge effect
* SS President Coolidge
* Backstairs at the White House (1979 miniseries)

Family|

* Grace Coolidge (wife)
* John Coolidge (son)
* John Calvin Coolidge Sr. (father)
* Calvin Galusha Coolidge (grandfather)
* Arthur Brown, Olympia Brown, Charles A. Coolidge (cousins)
* Marcus A. Coolidge, Arthur W. Coolidge, Martha Coolidge, Carlos Coolidge (distant relations)
* Edmund Rice (ancestor)
* Rob Roy (family dog)
* Rebecca (pet raccoon)

* ← Warren G. Harding
* Herbert Hoover →

* ← Thomas R. Marshall
* Charles G. Dawes →

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| Massachusetts House of Representatives

Preceded by

Moses M. Bassett

|  Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
1907–1909  | Succeeded by

Charles A. Montgomery

Massachusetts Senate
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|  Member of the Massachusetts Senate
1912–1915  | Succeeded by

John B. Hull

Political offices
Preceded by

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|  Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts
1910–1912  | Succeeded by

William Feiker

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Levi H. Greenwood

|  President of the Massachusetts Senate
1914–1915  | Succeeded by

Henry Gordon Wells

Preceded by

Grafton D. Cushing

|  Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
1916–1919  | Succeeded by

Channing H. Cox

Preceded by

Samuel W. McCall

|  Governor of Massachusetts
1919–1921
Preceded by

Thomas R. Marshall

|  Vice President of the United States
1921–1923  | Succeeded by

Charles G. Dawes

Preceded by

Warren G. Harding

|  President of the United States
1923–1929  | Succeeded by

Herbert Hoover

Party political offices
Preceded by

Grafton D. Cushing

|  Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
1915, 1916, 1917  | Succeeded by

Channing H. Cox

Preceded by

Samuel W. McCall

|  Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts
1918, 1919 | Succeeded by

Channing H. Cox

Preceded by

Charles W. Fairbanks

|  Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States
1920 | Succeeded by

Frank Orren Lowden
Withdrew

Preceded by

Warren G. Harding

|  Republican nominee for President of the United States
1924 | Succeeded by

Herbert Hoover

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29. Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)
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* John W. Weeks (1923–1925)
* Dwight F. Davis (1925–1929)

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* Harry M. Daugherty (1923–1924)
* Harlan F. Stone (1924–1925)
* John G. Sargent (1925–1929)

Postmaster General|

* Harry S. New (1923–1929)

Secretary of the Navy|

* Edwin Denby (1923–1924)
* Curtis D. Wilbur (1924–1929)

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* Hubert Work (1923–1928)
* Roy Owen West (1928–1929)

Secretary of Agriculture|

* Henry Cantwell Wallace (1923–1924)
* Howard Mason Gore (1924–1925)
* William Marion Jardine (1925–1929)

Secretary of Commerce|

* Herbert Hoover (1923–1928)
* William F. Whiting (1928–1929)

Secretary of Labor|

* James J. Davis (1923–1929)

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7. John C. Calhoun (1825–1832)
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10. John Tyler (1841)
11. George M. Dallas (1845–1849)
12. Millard Fillmore (1849–1850)
13. William R. King (1853)
14. John C. Breckinridge (1857–1861)
15. Hannibal Hamlin (1861–1865)
16. Andrew Johnson (1865)
17. Schuyler Colfax (1869–1873)
18. Henry Wilson (1873–1875)
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25. Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
26. Charles W. Fairbanks (1905–1909)
27. James S. Sherman (1909–1912)
28. Thomas R. Marshall (1913–1921)
29. Calvin Coolidge (1921–1923)
30. Charles G. Dawes (1925–1929)
31. Charles Curtis (1929–1933)
32. John N. Garner (1933–1941)
33. Henry A. Wallace (1941–1945)
34. Harry S. Truman (1945)
35. Alben W. Barkley (1949–1953)
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* Charles Evans Hughes (1921–1923)

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* Andrew Mellon (1921–1923)

Secretary of War|

* John W. Weeks (1921–1923)

Attorney General|

* Harry M. Daugherty (1921–1923)

Postmaster General|

* Will H. Hays (1921–1922)
* Hubert Work (1922–1923)
* Harry S. New (1923)

Secretary of the Navy|

* Edwin Denby (1921–1923)

Secretary of the Interior|

* Albert B. Fall (1921–1923)
* Hubert Work (1923)

Secretary of Agriculture|

* Henry Cantwell Wallace (1921–1923)

Secretary of Commerce|

* Herbert Hoover (1921–1923)

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* James J. Davis (1921–1923)

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* Hutchinson
* A. Oliver
* T. Oliver

Commonwealth
(since 1776)|

* T. Cushing
* B. Lincoln
* Adams
* Gill
* S. Phillips
* Robbins
* L. Lincoln
* Cobb
* Gray
* W. Phillips
* L. Lincoln Jr.
* Morton
* Winthrop
* Armstrong
* Hull
* Childs
* Reed
* Cushman
* Huntington
* Plunkett
* Brown
* Benchley
* Trask
* Goodrich
* Nesmith
* Hayden
* Claflin
* Tucker
* Talbot
* Knight
* Long
* Weston
* Ames
* Brackett
* Haile
* Wolcott
* Crane
* Bates
* Guild
* Draper
* Frothingham
* Luce
* Walsh
* Barry
* G. Cushing
* C. Coolidge
* Cox
* Fuller
* Allen
* Youngman
* Bacon
* Hurley
* Kelly
* Cahill
* Bradford
* A. Coolidge
* Sullivan
* Whittier
* R. Murphy
* McLaughin
* Bellotti
* Richardson
* Sargent
* Dwight
* O'Neill
* Kerry
* E. Murphy
* Cellucci
* Swift
* Healey
* Murray
* Polito
* Driscoll

* v
* t
* e

Presidents of the Massachusetts Senate

* Cushing
* Powell
* Adams
* S. Phillips
* Adams
* Cobb
* Otis
* J. Bacon
* S. Dana
* Otis
* S. Dana
* J. Phillips
* Silsbee
* Mills
* S. Leland
* Lathrop
* Fowler
* Saltonstall
* Thorndike
* Pickman
* Bliss
* Mann
* M. Lawrence
* King
* Quincy
* P. Leland
* Robinson
* Quincy
* Lincoln
* Calhoun
* Scudder
* Bell
* Wilder
* Wilson
* Warren
* Cook
* Benchley
* Baker
* Upham
* Phelps
* Claflin
* Clifford
* Field
* Pond
* Brastow
* Pitman
* Brastow
* H. Coolidge
* Loring
* Cogswell
* Bishop
* Crocker
* Bruce
* Pillsbury
* Boardman
* Hartwell
* Sprague
* Pinkerton
* Butler
* G. Lawrence
* Smith
* Soule
* Jones
* W. Dana
* Chapple
* Treadway
* Greenwood
* C. Coolidge
* H. Wells
* McKnight
* Allen
* W. Wells
* G. Bacon
* Fish
* Moran
* Wragg
* Cotton
* Goodwin
* Hunt
* A. Coolidge
* Nicholson
* Richardson
* Dolan
* Richardson
* Furbush
* Holmes
* Powers
* Donahue
* Harrington
* Bulger
* Birmingham
* Travaglini
* Murray
* Rosenberg
* Chandler
* Spilka

* v
* t
* e

(<- 1916) 1920 United States presidential election (-> 1924)

Republican Party
(Convention)|

| Nominees|

* President: Warren G. Harding
* Vice President: Calvin Coolidge

|

Other candidates|

* Leonard Wood
* Frank Orren Lowden
* Hiram Johnson
* William Cameron Sproul
* Nicholas Murray Butler
* Calvin Coolidge
* Robert M. La Follette
* Jeter C. Pritchard
* Miles Poindexter
* Howard Sutherland
* Herbert Hoover

Democratic Party
(Convention)|

| Nominees|

* President: James M. Cox
* Vice President: Franklin D. Roosevelt

|

Other candidates|

* William Gibbs McAdoo
* A. Mitchell Palmer
* Al Smith
* John W. Davis
* Edward I. Edwards
* Woodrow Wilson (incumbent)
* Robert L. Owen

Third party and independent candidates

Socialist Party|

* Nominee: Eugene V. Debs
* VP nominee: Seymour Stedman

Farmer–Labor Party|

* Nominee: Parley P. Christensen
* VP nominee: Max S. Hayes

Prohibition Party|

* Nominee: Aaron S. Watkins
* VP nominee: D. Leigh Colvin

American Party|

* Nominee: James E. Ferguson
* VP nominee: William J. Hough

Socialist Labor Party|

* Nominee: William Wesley Cox
* VP nominee: August Gillhaus

Single Tax|

* Nominee: Robert Colvin Macauley
* VP nominee: Richard C. Barnum

* Other 1920 elections: House
* Senate

* v
* t
* e

(<- 1920) 1924 United States presidential election (-> 1928)

Republican Party
(Convention · Primaries)|

| Nominees|

* President: Calvin Coolidge (incumbent)
* Vice President: Charles G. Dawes

|

Other candidates|

* Hiram Johnson
* Robert M. La Follette

Democratic Party
(Convention · Primaries)|

| Nominees|

* President: John W. Davis
* Vice President: Charles W. Bryan

|

Other candidates|

* William Gibbs McAdoo
* Al Smith
* campaign
* Oscar Underwood

Progressive Party|

| Nominees|

* President: Robert M. La Follette
* Vice President: Burton K. Wheeler

|

Other Third-party and independent candidates

Communist Party|

* Nominee: William Z. Foster
* VP nominee: Benjamin Gitlow

Prohibition Party|

* Nominee: Herman P. Faris
* VP nominee: Marie C. Brehm

American Party|

* Nominee: Gilbert Nations
* VP nominee: Charles Hiram Randall

* Other 1924 elections: House
* Senate

* v
* t
* e

(<- 1928) 1932 United States presidential election (-> 1936)

Democratic Party
(Primaries · Convention)|

| Nominees|

* President: Franklin D. Roosevelt
* Vice President: John Nance Garner

|

Other candidates|

* John Nance Garner
* William H. Murray
* James A. Reed
* Albert Ritchie
* Al Smith (campaign)

Republican Party
(Primaries · Convention)|

| Nominees|

* President: Herbert Hoover (incumbent)
* Vice President: Charles Curtis (incumbent)

|

Other candidates|

* John J. Blaine
* Calvin Coolidge
* Joseph I. France
* James W. Wadsworth

Third party and independent candidates

Communist Party|

* Nominee: William Z. Foster
* VP nominee: James W. Ford

Prohibition Party|

* Nominee: William David Upshaw

Socialist Party|

* Nominee: Norman Thomas
* VP nominee: James H. Maurer

Socialist Labor Party|

* Nominee: Verne L. Reynolds
* VP nominee: John W. Aiken

Independents|

* James Renshaw Cox
* William Hope Harvey

* Other 1932 elections: House
* Senate

* v
* t
* e

Conservatism in the United States

Schools|

* Compassionate
* Fiscal
* Fusion
* Libertarian
* Moderate
* Movement
* Neo-
* Paleo-
* Postliberal
* Progressive
* Social
* Traditionalist

Principles|

* American exceptionalism
* Anti-communism
* Christian nationalism
* Classical liberalism
* Communitarianism
* Constitutionalism
* Familialism
* Family values
* Federalism
* States' rights
* Gender essentialism
* Complementarianism
* Judeo-Christian values
* Individualism
* Law and order
* Limited government
* Militarism
* Moral absolutism
* Natural law
* Ordered liberty
* Patriotism
* Protectionism
* Republicanism
* Right to bear arms
* Rule of law
* Tradition

People|

| Presidents|

* Adams (John)
* Adams (John Quincy)
* G. H. W. Bush
* G. W. Bush
* Cleveland
* Coolidge
* Harding
* Hoover
* McKinley
* Nixon
* Reagan
* W. H. Taft
* Trump
* Washington

|

Jurists|

* Alito
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* Colson
* George
* Goldsmith
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* Kavanaugh
* Kennedy
* O'Connor
* Parker
* Rehnquist
* Roberts
* Scalia
* Sessions
* Sutherland
* Taft
* Thomas
* Vermeule
* Yoo

Intellectuals|

* Adams
* Anton
* Babbitt
* Bacevich
* Bell
* Bellow
* Bloom
* Boorstin
* Buckley
* Burnham
* Calhoun
* Chambers
* Conquest
* Deneen
* Eastman
* Eliot
* Genovese
* Gottfried
* Hanson
* Hazony
* Hoppe
* Hurston
* Jaffa
* Kendall
* Kimball
* Kirk
* Kirkpatrick
* Kreeft
* Kristol
* Kuehnelt-Leddihn
* Lasch
* Lind
* Lovecraft
* Loury
* Lukacs
* Mansfield
* Mencken
* Meyer
* Molnar
* Murray
* Nisbet
* O'Connor
* Ong
* Ransom
* Rieff
* Santayana
* Sowell
* Strauss
* Viereck
* Voegelin
* Washington
* Weaver
* Yarvin

Other figures|

* Ailes
* Atwater
* Beck
* Breitbart
* Carlson
* Cheney
* Coulter
* Cruz
* DeSantis
* Dilling
* Elder
* Falwell
* Gingrich
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* Lindbergh
* Lodge
* Lovecraft
* McCain
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* Pence
* Perot
* Quayle
* Romney
* Rove
* Rumsfeld
* Ryan
* Sessions
* Schlafly
* Shapiro
* Stone
* Robert A. Taft
* Booker T. Washington

Parties|

* American Party
* American Independent Party
* Conservative Party of New York State
* Constitution Party
* Republican Party
* Anti-Masonic Party
* Constitutional Union Party
* Democratic Party (historically, factions)
* Boll weevils
* Conservative Democrats
* Dixiecrats
* Reagan Democrats
* Southern Democrats
* Rhode Island Suffrage Party
* Federalist Party
* National Republican Party
* Native American Party
* Whig Party

Movements|

* Alt-right
* Asian and Pacific Islander
* Black
* Christian right
* Dark Enlightenment
* Female
* Green
* Hispanic and Latino
* LGBT
* Libertarian Republicans
* Militia movement
* Patriot movement
* Christian
* Radical Right
* Reactionary feminism
* Tea Party movement
* Trumpism

Think tanks|

* Acton Institute
* AdTI
* AEI
* CSP
* Center for the National Interest
* Claremont Institute
* CEI
* CSPC
* EPPC
* FRI
* Gatestone Institute
* Heartland Institute
* The Heritage Foundation
* Heritage Action
* Mandate for Leadership
* Project 2025
* Hoover Institution
* Hudson Institute
* ISI
* James Madison Program
* Leadership Institute
* Manhattan Institute
* Mises Institute
* PRI
* Project for the New American Century (Defunct)
* Ripon Society
* R Street Institute
* Rockford Institute
* SPN
* Sutherland Institute
* Tax Foundation
* Witherspoon Institute

Historical factions|

* Bourbon Democrats
* Dixiecrats
* Loyalists
* Old Right
* Redeemers
* Southern Agrarians

Literature|

* Democracy in America (1835–1840)
* Democracy and Leadership (1924)
* I'll Take My Stand (1930)
* Our Enemy, the State (1935)
* The Managerial Revolution (1941)
* Ideas Have Consequences (1948)
* God and Man at Yale (1951)
* The Conservative Mind (1953)
* The Conscience of a Conservative (1960)
* A Choice Not an Echo (1964)
* Losing Ground (1984)
* A Conflict of Visions (1987)
* The Closing of the American Mind (1987)
* The Bell Curve (1994)
* A Republic, Not an Empire (1999)
* Hillbilly Elegy (2017)
* The Benedict Option (2017)
* Why Liberalism Failed (2018)

See also|

* American nationalism
* Bibliography of conservatism in the United States
* List of American conservatives
* National conservatism
* Southern strategy

* Conservatism portal

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