Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, on July 4, 1872. Coolidge rose through the ranks of Massachusetts government as a Progressive Republican. Elected U.S. vice president in 1920, he ...
I. A yankee in the White House: 1. Fundamental Vermont ; 2. The press conference ; 3. Life as president -- II. The United States at home: 4. Office of the President ; 5. The role of Congress ; Frugal ...
Despite his farm upbringing, Coolidge fought farm relief legislation that might have saved American farms when the depression followed the stock market crash in 1929. Still Calvin Coolidge, a man with ...