Coolidge lived an average farm boy’s life working on the farm and going to a local schoolhouse for his education. When he reached the age of 13, he attended Black River Academy. He graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered law and politics in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Coolidge really had no desire to become anything famous; he just wanted to take over the family store and continue with the farm work he had done all his life. But soon he began to slowly climb the political ladder. In 1898 he was elected to North Hampton City Council, while working in his law office. The other local political positions he held were city solicitor, clerk of the county courts, and chairman of the North Hampton Republican Party organization. In 1907 he was elected to the Massachusetts State House of Representatives. In 1910 he became mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts. Next he was elected to the Mass

Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old moral and economic principles amid the material prosperity which many Americans were enjoying. He refused to use Federal economic power to check the growing boom or to improve the depressed condition of agriculture and certain industries. His first memo to Congress in December 1923 called for isolation in foreign policy, and for tax cuts, economy, and limited aid to farmers. The first important act he passed was the Immigration Act of 1924, which limited immigration and excluded all Japanese people from immigrating here. Then he passed the Revenue Act of 1926 which reduced income tax by ten percent and he almost eliminated income tax on the middle class citizens. The national debt was

Coolidge was in retirement by the time the disaster of the Great Depression hit the country. He died January 5, 1933 of coronary thrombosis at his home in Northampton, Massachusetts.

reduced by $2 billion. The Veterans Bonus, which gave World War I veterans insurance redeemable over 20 years, and the McNary-Haugen Bill, which allowed the government to buy surplus and control the prices for it, both resulted in a huge failure and helped bring on the Great Depression, which came after

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