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.

• 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 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.

• Congressional Initiatives

  • Harding and Calvin Coolidge) had proposed and enacted numerous tax cuts, which cut the top income tax rate from 73% to 24%.

• Toward Immigration Restriction

  • President Calvin Coolidge signs the Immigration Act of 1924 on the south lawn of the White House.

• 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.