Calvin Coolidge Biography
He was wedded to Grace Coolidge. He was most widely known to be the 30th President of america. His first boy John Coolidge was created by the end of 1906. Early Lifestyle (Childhood): He was created on the laps of John Calvin Coolidge Sr. and Victoria Josephine Moor. He was created as the eldest kid of his parents. Interesting Specifics: He offered as the president of america from 2nd of August 1923 to 4th of March 1929.Who’s Calvin Coolidge: Calvin Coolidge was a politician from USA. Personal Lifestyle: He as a devoted hubby and the daddy of two lovely kids. He was also a Republican attorney. Rumor: He passed away in the first 1933 and the reason why of his loss of life is coronary thrombosis.
Known for movies
Visitin' 'round at Coolidge Corners (1924)
as Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 14 (1930)
as Himself, President of the USA
President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds (1924)
as Himself
The Road to Happiness (1924)
as Himself - President of the US
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Calvin Coolidge |
| Died | January 5, 1933, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States |
| Height | 1.78 m |
| Profession | Lawyer, Politician |
| Education | St. Johnsbury Academy, Amherst College |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Grace Coolidge |
| Children | John Coolidge, Calvin Coolidge Jr. |
| Parents | John Calvin Coolidge Sr., Victoria Josephine Moor |
| Siblings | Abigail Grace Coolidge |
Interesting Facts
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | When he died in 1933, he left his entire estate, valued at $700,000, entirely to his wife Grace. |
| 2 | He was the last "true blue" conservative to win the Republican nomination until Barry Goldwater in 1964. |
| 3 | Oddly ironic that, though Coolidge was known as "Silent Cal", he was the first president to talk on film, in President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds (1924) with Lee De Forest behind the camera. |
| 4 | First U.S. president to appear in a synchronized sound film. |
| 5 | Cousin of Gov. William Wallace Stickney. |
| 6 | Was the first Vice President to attend Cabinet meetings on a regular basis, at the invitation of President Warren G. Harding. Prior to Cooldige, all Vice Presidents had been excluded from Cabinet meetings. |
| 7 | Was sworn in as President on August 3, 1923, by his father in Vermont, where he was vacationing at the time. He is the only U.S. president to have the oath of office administered by his father. Coolidge had to take the oath of office again a few weeks later when it was revealed that his father, who was a notary public for the State of Vermont, did not have the authority to swear in federal officials. |
| 8 | His favorite activity was riding his mechanical horse which he kept stored in his bedroom. |
| 9 | Coolidge had a quiet, dull personality. His headstone in Massachusetts is very much the same, it is slate gray with the Presidential seal, his name, the date and nothing else. |
| 10 | Because of his icy demeaner a woman once approached him as a party and bet that she could get him to say more than two words. Unsmiling, Coolidge said "You lose". |
| 11 | Brother in the International Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) |
| 12 | Contrary to popular legend, he never said "The business of America is business". |
| 13 | Suffered from asthma. Because he distrusted physicians, he treated himself with patent medicines and breathed chlorine released into the air of a closed room in futile attempts to alleviate his asthma. |
| 14 | Vice President of United States (1921-1923). |
| 15 | Member of Massachusetts General Court(1907-1908). |
| 16 | Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts (1910-1911). |
| 17 | Massachusetts State Senator (1912-1915). |
| 18 | Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1916-1918). |
| 19 | Governor of Massachusetts (1919-1920). |
| 20 | 12th cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 21 | Pictured on the $5.00 US postage stamp in the Presidential Series, issued 17 November 1938. |
| 22 | Has been called "The Dullest President of All Time." |
| 23 | 2 sons - John Coolidge (1906-2000) and Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1908-1924) |
| 24 | 30th president of The United States (1923-1929). |
Quotes
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | People seem to think the presidential machinery should keep on running, even after the power has been turned off. |
| 2 | I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do on its enforcement. |
| 3 | If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. |
| 4 | I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. |
| 5 | Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. |
| 6 | Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. |
| 7 | I do not choose to run for president in 1928. |
| 8 | [asked for his reasoning for, when governor of Massachusetts, to fire striking members of the Boston Police Department] There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, any time, anywhere. |
| 9 | [asked what he was thinking when told that President Warren G. Harding had died and he was now President] I thought I could swing it. |
| 10 | [commenting on the revelation that several members of of his predecessor's cabinet were implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal] Let the guilty be punished. |
| 11 | Four-fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still. |
| 12 | Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation. |
Pictures
Filmography
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Voice of Hollywood No. 7 | 1930 | Short documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Voice of Hollywood No. 10 | 1930 | Short | Himself (uncredited) |
| Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 14 | 1930 | Short | Himself, President of the USA |
| The Road to Happiness | 1924 | Documentary short | Himself - President of the US |
| Visitin' 'round at Coolidge Corners | 1924 | Documentary short | Himself |
| President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds | 1924 | Documentary short | Himself (as President Coolidge) |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Win the US Presidency | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Jeopardy! | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Grave of the Zombie Antelope | 2013 | Himself | |
| Prohibition | 2011 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Landslide: A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Unnatural Causes | 2008 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - President |
| The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk | 2007 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The Presidents | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| La neuvième | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Century of the Self | 2002 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Century: America's Time | 1999 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History | 1999 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| The Great Depression | 1998 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself (in car with Hoover) (unconfirmed, uncredited) |
| 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Roaring Twenties | 1996 | Video documentary short | Himself - with Men in Suits (uncredited) |
| Inside the White House | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Story of Mount Rushmore: America in Stone | 1994 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Portraits of Presidents: Presidents of a World Power (1901-) | 1992 | Video documentary | Himself |
| American Experience | 1990 | TV Series documentary | Himself - President of the United States |
| Mount Rushmore: The Shrine | 1986 | Video documentary short | Himself - August 10 1927 dedication |
| Zelig | 1983 | Himself - Pinning Medal (uncredited) | |
| Hollywood | 1980 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| The Age of Ballyhoo | 1973 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The Comic | 1969 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Project XX | 1961 | TV Series documentary | Himself - President of the United States |
| Biography | 1961 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| I Never Forget a Face | 1956 | Short documentary | Himself |
| The Naughty Twenties | 1951 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The Littlest Expert on My Favorite President | 1951 | Short | Himself |
| Fifty Years Before Your Eyes | 1950 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Golden Twenties | 1950 | Documentary | Himself |
| Blue Skies | 1946 | Himself - Film Clip (uncredited) | |
| The Roaring Twenties | 1939 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Whirlpool | 1934 | Himself - President Calvin Coolidge (uncredited) |