Trivia

12th cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

He was the last "true blue" conservative to win the Republican nomination until Barry Goldwater in 1964.

Coolidge was somewhat ahead of his time when it came to combating racism - he spoke in favor of full civil rights for African Americans, he criticized those who thought America was merely a "white man's" country, called for legislation against lynching, which he called a "hideous crime", and signed the law which finally granted full U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans.

He was the first President to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.

30th president of The United States (1923-1929).

2 sons - John Coolidge (1906-2000) and Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1908-1924)

Has been called "The Dullest President of All Time."

Pictured on the $5.00 US postage stamp in the Presidential Series, issued 17 November 1938.

Governor of Massachusetts (1919-1920).

Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1916-1918).

Massachusetts State Senator (1912-1915).

Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts (1910-1911).

Member of Massachusetts General Court(1907-1908).

Vice President of United States (1921-1923).

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.

Contrary to popular legend, he never said "The business of America is business".

Brother in the International Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI)

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".

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.

His favorite activity was riding his mechanical horse which he kept stored in his bedroom.

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.

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.

Cousin of Gov. William Wallace Stickney.

First U.S. president to appear in a synchronized sound film.

When he died in 1933, he left his entire estate, valued at $700,000, entirely to his wife Grace.

His 1924 reelection saw the lowest voter turnout of the 20th century.

He is the only US president who was born the fourth of July.