Presidency of Calvin Coolidge Presidency of Calvin Coolidge The presidency of Calvin Coolidge began on August 2, 1923, when Calvin Coolidge became President of the United States upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding, and ended on March 4, 1929. A member of the Republican Party, Coolidge had been Vice President of the United States for when he became the 30th President of the United States. Elected to a full four–year term in 1924, Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative. Coolidge was succeeded by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover after the 1928 presidential election. Coolidge adeptly handled the aftermath of several
John Calvin Coolidge Sr. of the peace and a notary public, administered the presidential oath of office to his son at the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, at about 2:30 a.m. on August 3, 1923. John Calvin Coolidge Sr. died in Plymouth, Vermont on . He was buried at Plymouth Notch Cemetery. In 1868, Coolidge married Victoria Josephine Moor (b. 1850). They were the parents of two children, son Calvin, and daughter Abigail (1875-1890). Victoria Coolidge died in 1885, at the age of 35. Coolidge married again on September 9, 1891. to Caroline Athelia Brown (1857–1920). John Calvin Coolidge Sr. John Calvin Coolidge