30th President Calvin Coolidge is born in Plymouth, Vermont. Born John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. Coolidge began his career as a lawyer in New England, later being elected as the Governor of Massachusetts in 1918. Elected as Warren Harding's vice president in 1920, Coolidge ascended to the White House after Harding died in 1923.
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1872
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