Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge (January 3, 1879 - July 8, 1957) is the wife of the 30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge. He was the First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929 and the Second Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923. He graduated from Vermont University in 1902 with a bachelor's degree in teaching and joined the Clarke School for Hearing. and Speech in Northampton, Massachusetts to teach deaf children to communicate by reading lips, rather than by signing. He met Calvin Coolidge in 1904, and both married the following year.
As her husband advanced his political career, Coolidge avoided politics. When Calvin Coolidge was elected as Governor of Massachusetts in 1919, he remained at home in Northampton with their children. After the election of her husband as vice president in 1920, the family moved to Washington, D.C., staying at the Willard Hotel. Coolidge did not talk about political issues that day, including women's rights. Instead, he dedicated himself to supporting popular causes and organizations, such as the Red Cross and the Visiting Nurse Association. After the death of his son Calvin in 1924, he won state sympathy. Unlike the first woman before, who had been almost completely withdrawn from the public spotlight after a personal tragedy, Coolidge resumed his official duties after just a few months.
In 1929, Calvin Coolidge's term as president ended, and the couple retired to Northampton. After the death of her husband in 1933, Coolidge continued his work with the deaf and wrote for several magazines. He served on the board of Mercersburg Academy and Clarke School. After the start of World War II, Grace joined a Northampton local committee dedicated to helping Jewish refugees from Europe, and lent her home to WAVES. In 1957, he died of heart disease, and was buried in Plymouth, Vermont, next to her husband and son.
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Early life and marriage
Grace Anna Goodhue was born on January 3, 1879, in Burlington, Vermont, the only child of Andrew Issaclar Goodhue (1848-1923) and Lemira Barrett Goodhue (1849-1929). He is an English ancestor. His father, a deacon, and served as a steamboat inspector for Lake Champlain Transportation Company, was appointed to a position in 1887 by President Grover Cleveland. Her mother was a housewife, who taught her many household skills, including knitting, cooking, cleaning, and gardening.
He began his education at the age of five at public school in Burlington, and attended Burlington High School. It was at this point that he was interested in music and took private piano lessons. In 1893, he entered Burlington High School. There he studied Latin and French, as well as geology, biology, and chemistry. He also took private courses in the field of elocution. He enrolled in 1898 at the University of Vermont, where he founded the Vermont chapter of the Pi Beta Phi championship, acted in the production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night , and joined with college happy clubs. She will be the first First Lady to earn a four-year bachelor's degree. From 1902 to 1904, inspired by a childhood friend who had pursued a career teaching deaf children, he learned to read lips at Clarke School for Listening and Speaking and became a teacher there. Education of deaf children remains a passion for life.
Grace dated some young men during college. One relationship, which with Frank Joyner, is serious enough that marriage seems inevitable. He ended the relationship in 1903 when he met a young lawyer, Calvin Coolidge. Grace's elegance and charm proved to be the perfect complement to Coolidge's already ordered ways. In the summer of 1905, Coolidge proposed in the form of an ultimatum: "I will marry you." Grace was willing to agree, but her mother objected and did everything she could to postpone marriage. Coolidge never reconciled with his mother-in-law, who later insisted that Grace had been largely responsible for Coolidge's political success. On October 4, 1905, Goodhue and Coolidge were married in a simple ceremony at her parents' home in Burlington: Coolidge House, The house was restored in 1993 by Champlain College *. They honeymooned for a week in Montreal and settled in Northampton, Massachusetts, where they occupied what is now known as Calvin Coolidge House until 1930.
Calvin Coolidge's political career began in 1907 when he was elected at the Massachusetts General Court. After his term of office in the state legislature ended, he served three consecutive years a year as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1916-1918), and one term as Governor of Massachusetts (1919-1921). In 1920, he was elected Vice President and served in March 1921. Grace does not have many public profiles.
The Coolidges had two sons, John (1906-2000) and Calvin (1908-1924)
In 1921, as the wife of Vice President of the United States, Grace Coolidge went from her housewife routine to Washington society and quickly became the most popular woman in the capital.
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First Lady
After Harding's death and Calvin Coolidge's succession to Presidency, Grace planned a new social life of government as her husband desired: understated and dignified.
As First Lady, she is a popular hostess. He is also the first First Lady to speak good news. The social top of Coolidge's years was a feast for Charles Lindbergh after a transatlantic flight in 1927. Coolidges was a very loyal partner, though the president never discussed the country's problems with him. He did not even know that he had decided not to seek re-election in 1928 until he announced it to the press. He received a gold medal from the National Institute of Social Science. In 1931 he was selected as one of the 12 greatest living women in America.
Next life and death
Calvin Coolidge concluded his marriage with Grace in his autobiography: "For almost a quarter of a century he has borne my weakness, and I have rejoiced in his grace."
For more privacy in Northampton, Coolidges bought The Beeches, a large mansion with large grounds. The former president died there after a sudden cardiac arrest on January 5, 1933 at the age of 60. After the death of her husband, Grace Coolidge resumed her work on behalf of the deaf. He was also active in the Red Cross, civil defense, and memo drives during World War II. Grace remained pleased and reluctant to publicity until her death on July 8, 1957 at the age of 78. She is buried beside her husband in Plymouth, Vermont.
See also
- Rebecca (raccoon), pet of the White House
- World Women Exhibition
References
Further reading
- Ishbel Ross, Grace Coolidge and His Era (1962)
External links
- Grace Coolidge: First Lady of Baseball
- Wombat and Such: Family Pets of Grace and Calvin Coolidge
- Grace Coolidge in the Search of the Mausoleum
- Grace Coolidge in C-SPAN First Ladies: Influence & amp; Images
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