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Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States and served from August 2, 1923 to March 4, 1929.

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What was Calvin Coolidge occupation before becoming president?

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Before becoming president, Calvin Coolidge served as the Vice President of the United States under Warren G. Harding. Prior to that, he was the Governor of Massachusetts.

What did Calvin Coolidge do before he was president?

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Before becoming president, Calvin Coolidge served as the Vice President of the United States under President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. Prior to that, he served as the governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921. Coolidge also held numerous other political positions throughout his career at the local and state levels.

What was Harding's and Calvin Coolidge's policy toward business called?

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Harding's policy toward business was known as "normalcy," which aimed to return the economy to pre-WWI conditions. Coolidge continued this policy and expanded upon it, advocating for limited government intervention and laissez-faire economic principles. This approach was commonly referred to as "government business partnership" or "the business of America is business."

How did Calvin Coolidge respond to the 1919 Boston police strike?

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Calvin Coolidge, who was the governor of Massachusetts at the time, responded to the 1919 Boston police strike by taking a strong stance against the strike and asserting that public safety should not be compromised. He called in the National Guard to maintain order and expressed his support for hiring replacement police officers. This decision boosted his reputation and helped him become Vice President and later President of the United States.

What were Calvin Coolidge's favorite books?

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Calvin Coolidge was known to have enjoyed reading historical and biographical works. Some of his favorite books included "Plutarch's Lives," a collection of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, as well as "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon. Coolidge also enjoyed works by political scientists, such as "The Federalist Papers."

When was Calvin Coolidge Bridge created?

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The Calvin Coolidge Bridge was completed and opened to traffic in 1938.

What was Calvin Coolidges bob cat's name?

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Calvin Coolidge's bobcat's name was "Smoky."

How old would Calvin Coolidge be today?

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If Calvin Coolidge were alive today, he would be 149 years old. He was born on July 4, 1872.

In what way did Calvin Coolidge agree with Andrew Mellon?

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Calvin Coolidge agreed with Andrew Mellon on the principle of limited government intervention in the economy. Both believed in reducing taxes and eliminating government regulations in order to stimulate economic growth. They shared the view that a laissez-faire approach would lead to a prosperous and efficient market system.

What was Coolidge?

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The phrase Coolidge's prosperity refers to the unprecedented economic prosperity experienced by the United States during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge was the 30th U.S. president, serving from 1923 to 1929.

What four measures backed by the Coolidge administration were?

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Measures backed by the Coolidge administration include Immigration Act of 1924, Merchant Marine Act, The Young Plan, and US-Nicaraguan relations. The immigration act reduced the number of Southern and Eastern Europeans entering the US. The Merchant Marine Act encouraged American ship-builders through a federal loan program. The Young Plan refashioned German reparations formula. Relations with Nicaragua preserved stability and American investments in the area.

What are Calvin Coolidge's accomplishments?

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He served as US President, 1923-1929

He served as US President, 1923-1929

He served as US President, 1923-1929

He served as US President, 1923-1929

He served as US President, 1923-1929

He served as US President, 1923-1929

When did Calvin Coolidge die?

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Calvin Coolidge died at about 12:45 pm on January 5, 1933 at the age of 60 at his home in Northampton, Mass.

What are the names of Calvin Coolidge's children?

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In 1905, 30th U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge [July 4, 1872-January 5, 1933] married Grace Anna Goodhue [January 3, 1879-July 8, 1957]. They had two children, of which one died most tragically. For younger son Calvin Jr. [April 13, 1908-July 7, 1924] developed a blister on one of his toes, from playing tennis barefoot. This was in the days before antibiotics. So a week later, he was dead from the blister getting infected and blood poisoning setting in. On September 23, 1929, elder son John Coolidge [September 7, 1906-May 31, 2000] married Florence Trumbull [November 30, 1904-February 15, 1998], daughter of 54th Connecticut Governor John Harper Trumbull [March 4, 1873-May 21, 1961] and Maude Pierce Usher [1874-1963]. They had two children, both daughters. On September 26, 1964, John and Florence's elder daughter Cynthia Coolidge [October 28, 1933-January 15, 1989] married Sherwood Edward Jeter [b. September 1, 1937]. They had only one child, who was John and Florence's first grandchild. John and Florence's grandson, Christopher Coolidge Jeter [b. January 3, 1967], married Tammy Marie Alessi, and had two sons: Kyle Jeter [b. July 3, 1997], and Chase Jeter [b. April 1, 2000]. On June 17, 1966, John and Florence's younger daughter Lydia Coolidge [August 14, 1939-March 2, 2001] married Jeremy Whitman Sayles [b. June 9, 1937]. They had two children, a boy and a girl. John and Florence's second grandchild, Jennifer Coolidge Sayles [b. 1970], married David Harville in 1998, and had son Calvin Jacob Harville [b. January 13, 2002]. John and Florence's third and grandchild was John Whitman Sayles [b. 1974].

Did Calvin Coolidge have pets?

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He and his wife had several dogs. Among them were Prudence Prim and Rob Roy , white Collies. Peter Pan, a Terrier, Paul Pry, an Airedale, Calamity Jane, a Shetland Sheepdog. Tiny Tim, a Chow, Blackberry, also a Chow, Ruby Rough, a brown Collie. Boston Beans, a bulldog, King Kole, a police dog, Bessie, a yellow collie and Palo Alto, a bird dog.

They had birds:

Nip and Tuck, canaries. Snowflake, a white canary, Old Bill a thrush. Enoch, a goose and a mockingbird, name unknown.

There were cats: Tiger, an alley cat, Blacky, another cat

and other animals Rebecca and Horace, raccoons.

Ebenezer, the donkey and Smokey, a bobcat.

Given to them by dignitaries from other countries there were also: lion cubs, a wallaby, Billy, a pigmy hippo, and a bear

What state was Calvin Coolidge elected from?

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Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont on July 4, 1872.

Who was Coolidge's successor?

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What were the economic policies of Calvin Coolidge?

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Coolidge was a supporter of laissez-faire free market capitalism and was an economic nationalist (following the tradition of conservatives during the 19th century). He supported high tariffs to protect American businesses from foreign competition, massive tax cuts and greatly reducing spending with a corresponding reduction in the national debt, as well as tight monetary policy and low inflation.

What are some skills that Calvin Coolidge a good president?

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President Coolidge was respectable and stable. These were two of his strengths. This enabled him to clean up the corruption of the former administration.

Did Calvin Coolidge have slaves?

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He wouldn't have any views on slavery since he was born seven years after slavery was abolished

How did Coolidge feel about government regulation of business activity?

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Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States. He was conservative and believed in a small government, which had little say in what businesses did. So, in short, the way Coolidge felt about government regulation of business activity, is that he didn't like it, and he didn't believe in it.

How did Calvin Coolidge's wife die?

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No- His wife ,Grace , lived on for about 24 years after he died.

What kind of president was Calvin Coolidge?

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He was quite conservative and favoured laissez-faire economics. He managed to restore faith in the White House after the scandals surrounding Warren G. Harding's administration, and left with much popularty. He was often seen as representing the middle class and interpreting what they wanted. He presided over a time of great growth and prosperity, and has been praised for his small government policies. Others believe that his failure to regulate the economy would lead to the Wall Street Crash, which would strike less than a year after he left office.

Who was generally favored by the economic policies under Presidents Harding and Coolidge?

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Harding's economic policies are actually a good example of how a laissez-faire approach addresses economic downturns, the downturn here being the depression of 1920-21. According to the Department of Commerce, GNP fell 18% and unemployment had reached 12%. As a point of comparison, there was no point during the depression a decade later when deflation shot so high so quickly.

Contrary to the pleadings of Herbert Hoover, Harding opted not to use his office in the more progressive manner associated currently with Keynesians and prior to Harding's administration with Wilson (aggressive centralized fiscal policies boosting government spending to "prime the pump"). Harding, realizing that the expansion of credit Wilson and the Federal Reserve (actually created during Wilson's administration) had espoused had led to nearly 20% inflation by 1919 only to be followed by equally vicious deflation a year later, actually cut the federal budget from its wartime levels by 72% from 1919 to 1921 and lowered taxes across the board. The national debt consequently fell by $300 million due to the surplus.

It is sometimes thought that Harding favored big business and opposed labor, though there are those who view this as a "cum hoc, ergo propter hoc" fallacy. Labor unions historically keep a low profile during economic downturns and it is unwise for a government looking to foster growth to make it more difficult for the entities doing the hiring to afford their employees. Similarly, tax cuts necessarily result in greater dollar-for-dollar savings for high earners, as they pay the bulk of the taxes anyway.

Coolidge continued along the same lines as Harding, with equally impressive results. It was under his administration that income taxes that had been as high as 65% under Wilson and that Harding had worked to reduce were brought down to 20%. Government spending remained low, and under Coolidge the national debt went from $22.3 billion to $16.9 billion. By his own admission of a decidedly pro-business mindset, his policies' benefits extended to all Americans; so much so that by the end of his administration 98% of the American people paid no income tax at all, yet the government still showed surpluses in excess of $700 million that same year.

What does Calvin Coolidge have to do with the Great Depression?

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Calvin Coolidge, after taking office in 1923, kept most of the policies created under the Harding administration. He intentionally only worked about four hours a day. He believed the government that governed least, governed best. To be fair, the decade of the 1920s is called an era of prosperity. This is because even after some mild economic bumps, the economy recovered rapidly. Unemployment was generally low and quality of living was up. Soon, the economy busted, as it does after many conservative eras. This is because the conservative party views the natural capitalistic cycle of boom and bust as a necessary part of the economy. Liberals tend to regulate the market more to ensure price stability, etc. The result is higher lows and lower highs.

So, Coolidge failed to regulate the market, leading to many people investing they didn't have with the promise of using property as collateral. When the stock market crashed, people lost the money they had hypothetically gained during the era of prosperity. Banks, a major investing force in the economy, failed when they lost the money of their clients. Overall, America was left with very little capital to spend towards redeveloping the economy.