Calvin Coolidge[1] (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; /ˈkuːlɪdʒ/; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a Republican lawyer from New England who climbed up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming the state’s 48th governor. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight as a man of decisive action. He was elected the country’s 29th vice president the next year, succeeding the presidency upon the sudden death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative and also as a man who said very little and had a dry sense of humor, receiving the nickname “Silent Cal“.[2][3] Though his widespread popularity enabled him to run for a third term, he chose not to run again in 1928, remarking that ten years as president was “longer than any other man has had it – too long!”
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