Calvin Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth, Vermont. His father was storekeeper, John Calvin Coolidge and his mother was Victoria Josephine Moor Coolidge. He graduated from Amherst College in 1895 and he served as our 30^th President from August 3, 1923 (after Harding’s death) to March 2, 1929.

     Calvin Coolidge was a lawyer. He ably served as City Councilman, City Solicitor, Clerk of the Courts and Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts. He was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature and also as Lieutenant-Governor and Governor of that state. Mr. Coolidge was selected to be the running mate of Warren G. Harding in 1920. When word reached him, in Vermont, that President Harding had died, Mr. Coolidge was administered the Oath of Office by his father, a notary public. Calvin Coolidge was a man of very few words. Once, at a dinner party, a young woman who was seated next to him stated that she bet she could get more than two words out of old “Silent Cal.” Without even as much looking at her, he calmly and quietly responded: “You lose.” President Calvin Coolidge chose not to seek re-election in 1928. He confided to a friend: “I feel I no longer fit in with these times.”

     Mr. Coolidge married Grace Anna Goodhue in 1905. They had two sons: John Coolidge and Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

     President Calvin Coolidge died on January 5, 1933 in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was 60 years old.