30th President of the United States

Calvin Coolidge

“Silent Cal”

In office

Aug. 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929

Party

Republican

Home state

Massachusetts

Lived

1872–1933

Days in office

2,041

In order

No. 30: after Warren G. Harding, before Herbert Hoover

Vice president

Charles G. Dawes

Key achievements & events

• Restored public trust after the Harding scandals
• Cut taxes and government spending during the booming "Roaring Twenties"
• Signed the Indian Citizenship Act (1924), granting citizenship to Native Americans born in the U.S.
• Backed the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) to renounce war

Remember: His father, a notary public, swore him in by kerosene lamp at the family farmhouse in Vermont.