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Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States

Calvin Coolidge
1923 - 1929



Vice President: Charles G. Dawes (1925-29)
Born: July 4, 1872, in Plymouth, Vermont
Died: January 5, 1933, in Northampton, Massachusetts
Career/Occupation: Lawyer
Religion: Congregationalist
Education: Graduated from Amherst College (1895)
Political Party: Republican
Nickname(s): "Silent Cal"


Other Government Positions:

• Northampton, MA City Councilman, 1899 
• City Solicitor, 1900-01 Clerk of Courts, 1904 
• Member of Massachusetts Legislature, 1907-08 
• Mayor of Northampton, MA, 1910-11 
• Member of Massachusetts Legislature, 1912-15 
• Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, 1916-18 
• Governor of Massachusetts, 1919-20 
• Vice President, 1921-23 (under Harding)

Presidential Salary: $75,000

Presidential Firsts:

The first president to be sworn in by his father, John Calvin Coolidge, Sr, following the death of Harding.

The first president to be sworn in by another president

William Howard Taft, who was chief justice at the time of the second inauguration of Coolidge in 1925.

The first president to give a radio broadcast from the White House.

The first president to be filmed with sound recording.

First president to visit Cuba while in office.

The first president to be a Congregationalist.

The first president to appear on US coinage while alive.

The first president to appear on US coinage while in office.

First president with any portion of Native American ancestry.

The first president who was a multiracial American.

Coolidge had a trace amount of American Indian ancenstery on his mothers side.

The first president born on Independence Day.

The first president to serve as both the governor and lieutenant governor of a state.

He served as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1916 to 1919 and governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921.