Tag Archives: Calvin Coolidge

I examine each case in U.S. history where there were consecutive presidential elections involving a candidate running as the incumbent president.

Four Presidents — Hiram ULYSSES Grant, Stephen GROVER Cleveland, Thomas WOODROW Wilson, and John CALVIN Coolidge — effectively used their middle names as first names. In this article, I examine each of these interesting presidential name cases.

Former First Lady Grace Coolidge was a big baseball fan. She was not, however, a fan of intentional bases on balls.

Calvin Coolidge described seeing then-President Benjamin Harrison speak when Coolidge was in college. I decided to find the story of Harrison’s 1891 orations in Bennington, Vermont.

“Though our mode of life has greatly changed, [the Thanksgiving] custom has always survived.”

President Biden was born closer to Lincoln’s assassination than to his own inauguration. This inspired a study…

“It has been named ‘Billy Possum,’ and for the present is to be retained in Rebecca’s cage.”

“[S]aved from death by President Coolidge’s distaste for that particular delicacy.”

〜Demonstrating the timelessness of Coolidge’s remarks on the home〜

“Saving, in the abstract, is, of course, a perfunctory process as compared with purposeful saving for a home…”

“[T]hat longing which exists in every human breast to be able to say: ‘This is mine.””

Introducing then-President Warren G. Harding’s 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration Week.