Calvin Coolidge

Examples of Calvin Coolidge in the following topics:

• The Republican Era

  • President Harding ushered in a new Republican era in 1920, and was followed by Presidents Coolidge and Hoover.
  • In the 1920 election, he and his running mate, Calvin Coolidge , defeated Democrat James M.
  • In August 1923, President Harding died in office and was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge.
  • Coolidge vetoed it.
  • Coolidge continued the previous administration's policy not to recognize the Soviet Union.

• The Election of 1924

  • Republican Calvin Coolidge benefited from a split within the Democratic Party in winning the 1924 presidential election.
  • The United States presidential election of 1924 was won by Calvin Coolidge, the Republican candidate who served as vice president under Warren G.
  • Riding that booming economy, there was little doubt that Coolidge would win the election.
  • Wheeler, saw Coolidge exceed their combined national tally by 2.5 million votes.
  • Coolidge and his running mate, Charles G.

• Promoting Peace Abroad

  • Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge, who became president following Harding’s death in 1923, fostered the growth of U.S. companies.
  • Coolidge also refused to recognize the Soviet Union, continuing the policy of the previous administration.
  • Coolidge represented the United States at the Pan American Conference in Havana, Cuba, making him the only sitting president to visit the country.
  • The American occupation of Nicaragua and Haiti continued under his administration, although Coolidge withdrew American troops from the Dominican Republic in 1924.
  • President Calvin Coolidge did not advocate U.S. membership in the League of Nations.

• Early Public Opinion Research and Polling

  • Mailing out millions of postcards and simply counting the returns, the Digest correctly predicted the victories of Warren Harding in 1920, Calvin Coolidge in 1924, Herbert Hoover in 1929, and Franklin Roosevelt in 1932.

• Al Smith and the Election of 1928

  • Davis, who went on to lose the general election to Republican Calvin Coolidge.
  • Food Administration during World War I and then as the United States Secretary of Commerce during the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
  • National prosperity and widespread anti-Catholic sentiment made Hoover’s election inevitable and he won in a landslide over Smith by pledging to continue the economic boom of the preceding Coolidge administration.

• The Importance of Accuracy

  • After correctly predicting the victories of Warren Harding in 1920, Calvin Coolidge in 1924, Herbert Hoover in 1929, and Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, the Literary Digest had established itself as a well-known and well-respected publication.

• The New Era

  • Vice President Calvin Coolidge succeeded Harding and in many ways could not have been more different than his predecessor.
  • Extolling entrepreneurship, Coolidge proclaimed, "The business of America is business," and the economy flourished through and emphasis on technological efficiency and prosperity as keys to social improvement.
  • In the Coolidge economy, energy was a key factor, especially electricity and oil.
  • When Coolidge declined to run for reelection in 1928, the Republican Party nominated engineer and Secretary of
  • The New Era of the 1920s was marked by unregulated capitalism, with the Harding and Coolidge administrations marking a return to the hands-off style of 19th-century presidents, in contrast to the activism and regulation of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

• Marcus Garvey

  • President Calvin Coolidge commuted Garvey’s sentence in 1927, and he was deported to Jamaica.

• The Roosevelt Corollary

  • In 1928, under President Calvin Coolidge, the Clark Memorandum reversed the Roosevelt Corollary.

• Changes in Agricultural Production

  • Despite attempts in 1924, 1926, 1927, and 1928 to pass the bill, it was vetoed by President Calvin Coolidge and never approved.
  • Coolidge supported an alternative program put forth by United States Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover and Agriculture Secretary William M.