Calvin Coolidge

President of the United States from 1923 to 1929

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Lived 1872–1933, aged 61United States

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1872–1933
Aged 61
Known for
The Roaring Twenties
1939

Summary

Updated 2026-06-08

The thirtieth president, a Republican who restored trust after scandal, presided over the Roaring Twenties boom, and then walked away — convinced ten years would be too long for any man to hold the office.

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Born July 4, 1872, John Calvin Coolidge Jr. climbed through Massachusetts politics as a fiscal conservative with a dry wit that earned him the nickname "Silent Cal." His decisive handling of the 1919 Boston police strike launched him onto the national stage, and the following year he rode with Warren G. Harding to a landslide presidential victory as vice president. When Harding died in 1923, Coolidge took the presidency and set about cleaning house after a raft of scandals. He signed the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, restricted immigration outside the Western Hemisphere, and kept a hands-off…

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