Calvin Coolidge

John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), son of John Calvin Coolidge and Victoria Moor Coolidge, attended Amherst College and began to practice law in 1897. He married Grace Anna Goodhue, a teacher at the Clarke Institute for the Deaf, and they had two sons. Coolidge's political career began in Massachusetts; he was elected mayor of Northampton in 1909, and then became a state senator (1911-15) and lieutenant governor (1915-18). Coolidge was elected governor of Massachusetts (1918-1920), and served as vice-president under Warren G. Harding, and became president in 1923 after Harding's death. Coolidge was elected to a full term in 1924 and did not seek re-election in 1928. source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Calvin-Coolidge accessed 11/18/2021 SM