Period 8
Due Date: September 23, 2011
Heroes of the 1920s: Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, born John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, was the only U.S. President to be born on Independence Day (July 4, 1872). Coolidge’s mother, Victoria Josephine Moor, died of tuberculosis when he was thirteen. At eighteen his younger sister died as well. Afterwards his father remarried a school teacher in 1891. Later in his life Coolidge married Grace Anna Goodhue, on October 4, 1905, who was a school teacher for the hearing impaired. Soon the couple fell out of love as quickly as they fell in it. But still continued to be married and later gave birth to two sons, John and Calvin Jr. Calvin Coolidge was best known for