Calvin moved to Northampton, Massachusetts to work for a local law firm called Hammond & Field so he would not have to pay for law school apparently back then it was common to volunteer to read law at places like that so you would not have to go to law school John C. Hammond and Henry P. Field, taught Coolidge to practice law in Hampshire County. In 1897 Coolidge became a country lawyer. With the money he saved and the money he inherited from his grandfather he opened a law office in Northampton just one year later.
In the year 1905 Coolidge met Grace Anna Goodhue at an event at the Congregational Church. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1902 later teaching at a school for deaf people. That same year they got engaged and were married by October. They had two sons’ names, John born in 1906 and Calvin born in 1908.
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He also vetoed a bill that would increase legislator’s pay by 50%. In the year 1920 Warren Harding from Ohio was picked as the republican nominee for President and when the time came to pick a vice presidential he picked Calvin. On November 2, 1920, Harding and Coolidge won the election with more than 60% of the vote including every state outside the South. They also won the state of Tennessee and that was the first time a Republican won a Southern state since after the Reconstruction of the