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Oct 25, 2024 · Running on the slogan “Keep Cool with Coolidge,” he won a landslide victory over conservative Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Party candidate Robert La Follette, gaining about 54 percent of the popular vote to Davis’s 29 percent and La Follette’s nearly 17 percent; in the electoral college Coolidge received 382 votes to Davis’s ...
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1 day ago · His earliest American ancestor, John Coolidge emigrated from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, around 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. [11] Coolidge's great-great-grandfather, also named John Coolidge, was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War and one of the first selectmen of the town of Plymouth. [12]
2 days ago · 1. Coolidge Was Born on the Fourth of July. Calvin Coolidge and his sons in 1920. Source: Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum. John Calvin Coolidge, named for his father, was born on July 4, 1872. Later dropping his first name in favor of his middle moniker, often shortened to “Cal,” the young man enjoyed a pleasant childhood in ...
Oct 6, 2024 · John Calvin Coolidge came to the presidency after the sudden death in 1923 of then President Warren G Harding. Coolidge’s inauguration was perhaps the most unusual – with his father swearing him in by the light of a kerosene lamp in his parlour.
Oct 25, 2024 · John F. Kennedy: “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” Gerald Ford: “The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.” Abraham Lincoln: “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
Oct 26, 2024 · In 1923 she met President Calvin Coolidge at the White House. In this excerpt from the speech she delivered on that occasion, she explained how she thought Indians understood the “Indian problem.”
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5 days ago · One of my favorite quotes of Coolidge's is "the chief business of the American people is business." He believed in minimal government interference, which is broadly what is meant by "laissez faire".
