Submitted by ke4ktza on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 08:46
Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States
(August 3, 1923 to March 3, 1929)
Nickname: "Silent Cal"
Born: July 4, 1872, in Plymouth, Vermont
Died: January 5, 1933, in Northampton, Massachusetts
Father: John Calvin Coolidge
Mother: Victoria Josephine Moor Coolidge
Married: Grace Anna Goodhue (1879-1957), on October 4, 1905
Children: John Coolidge (1906-2000); Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (1908-24)
Religion: Congregationalist
Education: Graduated from Amherst College (1895)
Occupation: Lawyer
Political Party: Republican
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/year
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes (1925-29)
Cabinet:
- Secretary of State
- Charles Evans Hughes (1923-25)
- Frank B. Kellogg (1925-29)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- Andrew W. Mellon (1923-29)
- Secretary of War
- John W. Weeks (1923-25)
- Dwight F. Davis (1925-29)
- Attorney General
- Harry M. Daugherty (1923-24)
- Harlan F. Stone (1924-25)
- John G. Sargent (1925-29)
- Postmaster General
- Harry S. New (1923-29)
- Secretary of the Navy
- Edwin Denby (1923-24)
- Curtis D. Wilbur (1924-29)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Hubert Work (1923-28)
- Roy O. West (1929)
- Secretary of Agriculture
- Henry C. Wallace (1923-24)
- Howard M. Gore (1924-25)
- William M. Jardine (1925-29)
- Secretary of Commerce
- Herbert C. Hoover (1923-28)
- William F. Whiting (1928-29)
- Secretary of Labor
- James J. Davis (1923-29)