Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States during the 1920's. He served in the white house for six years. He had no real dramatic accomplishments during his time as president. But he did lower taxes and debt in the US and kept the economy strong, growing, and stable. .
In 1920 when he was vice president and Warren G. Harding was president, Coolidge received word on Aug. 2, 1923 at 2:47 a.m. that president Harding had died. He left moments later to take up his duties as president.
He was not well respected by Congress or his cabinet until he started prosecuting scandals that worked in the white house for the Harding Admin. But thanks to his integrity and self possession, he retrieved public confidence in the white house.
In 1924 he was elected for as president, beating his opponents John W. Davis (Democrat), and Robert M. La Follette (Progressive). Coolidge was now well respected and received proper credit for the economic upturn. But 1924 was a sad year for Coolidge because in July his younger son, Calvin Jr., died of blood poisoning.
During his second tern he was fairly successful at getting what he wanted. His main achievements were reducing the national debt and reducing income taxes for more consumer spending, which made businesses and people happy. Some of his other measures were growth and expansion of civil and military aviation, expansion of the services of the departments of Agriculture and Commerce, regulation of radio broadcasting, development of waterway, flood control, and encouragement of cooperative solutions to farm problems.
Most of his time was absorbed by trying to achieve world peace. But his journey was unsuccessful and unsteady. As an admin., Coolidge was most successful. He demanded and got efficient and economical performance in government operations. .
Coolidge declined to run for reelection. He retired in 1929 to Northampton, where he occupied his time writing newspaper and magazine articles.
