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 Coolidge, Calvin
John. Coolidge was born John Calvin Coolidge. He dropped John after graduating from college. Stephen was the first name of Grover Cleveland and Thomas was the first name of Woodrow Wilson.
Abigail. Abigail Gratia Coolidge died at age 15. Victoria is Coolidge's mother first name. Grace is his wife's first name and Anna is his wife's middle name.
| A hostess once bet someone that she could get Coolidge to say more than two words. What did Coolidge say when the hostess finally talked to him? | Calvin Coolidge
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you lose. Coolidge wasn't known as "Silent Cal" for nothing.
Amherst. Coolidge attended Amherst from 1891 to 1895.
Congregationalist. Coolidge was inducted as a member of the First Congregationalist Church in Washington the first Sunday he attended services there after becoming president.
Massachusetts. Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1920.
| Coolidge was nominated for vice-president by the Republican Party in 1920 in what city? | Calvin Coolidge
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Chicago. The convention that nominated Warren Harding in the famous "Smoked-filled room" was held in June 1920 in Chicago. San Francisco was the site of the 1920 Democractic convention that nominated James Cox and Franklin Roosevelt. New York was the site of the 1924 Republican Convention that nominated Coolidge for his own term as president and Cleveland is where the Democrats met in 1924 to nominate John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan.
| Upon the death of Warren Harding on August 3, 1923, who swore in Coolidge as president? | Calvin Coolidge
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his father. Coolidge was vacationing at his father's home in Plymouth Notch, Vermont when he was awoken with the news that President Harding had died in San Francisco. Coolidge's father was a justice of the peace and a notary public so he gave his son the oath of office. A district court judge swore in LBJ upon John Kennedy's assassination and a state supreme court judge swore in Chester Arthur upon the death of James Garfield.
| John W. Davis was the Democratic nominee for President in 1924. On what ballot did he get the nomination? | Calvin Coolidge
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103. Al Smith and William McAdoo fought for over 100 ballots to get the nomination but neither man could. Finally, both withdrew and John W. Davis, who at the time was the president of the American Bar Association, was nominated on the 103rd ballot.
| How many men did Calvin Coolidge appoint to the US Supreme Court? | Calvin Coolidge
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1. Harlan Stone was the only man that Coolidge appointed to the Court. That took place in 1925. In 1941, FDR made Harlan Stone the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Northampton, Massachusetts. Coolidge was found dead by his wife at their home in Northampton, Massachusetts on January 5, 1933. He died from a coronary thrombosis.
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