Grace Anna Coolidge was the wife of the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge.
23 Facts About Grace Coolidge
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Grace Coolidge was the first lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929 and the second lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923.
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Grace Coolidge graduated from the University of Vermont in 1902 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in teaching and joined the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech in Northampton, Massachusetts, to teach deaf children to communicate by lip reading, rather than by signing.
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Grace Coolidge met Calvin Coolidge in 1904, and the two were married the following year.
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When Calvin Grace Coolidge was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1919, she remained at home in Northampton with their children.
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Grace Coolidge did not speak out on political issues of the day, including women's rights.
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Unlike previous first ladies, who had withdrawn almost entirely from the public spotlight after personal tragedies, Grace Coolidge resumed her role after a few months.
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Grace Coolidge served on the boards of Mercersburg Academy and the Clarke School.
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Grace Coolidge Anna Goodhue was born on January 3,1879, in Burlington, Vermont, the only child of Andrew Issaclar Goodhue and Lemira Barrett Goodhue.
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Grace Coolidge's mother was a housewife, who taught her many domestic skills, including knitting, cooking, cleaning, and gardening.
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Grace Coolidge enrolled in 1898 at the University of Vermont, where she founded the Vermont Beta chapter of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women, acted in productions of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night, and joined the college's glee club.
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Grace Coolidge would become the first First Lady to have earned a four-year undergraduate degree.
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Grace Coolidge ended the relationship in 1903 when she met a young rising attorney, Calvin Coolidge.
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Coolidge never reconciled with his mother-in-law, who later insisted that Grace had been largely responsible for Coolidge's political success.
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On October 4,1905, Goodhue and Grace Coolidge married in a simple ceremony at her parents' house in Burlington: Grace Coolidge House, which was restored in 1993 by Champlain College*.
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In 1921, as wife of the Vice President of the United States, Grace Coolidge went from her housewife's routine into Washington society and quickly became the most popular woman in the capital.
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Grace Coolidge was the first First Lady to speak in sound newsreels.
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The social highlight of the Grace Coolidge years was the party for Charles Lindbergh following his transatlantic flight in 1927.
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Grace Coolidge did not even know that he had decided not to seek re-election in 1928 until he announced it to the press.
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Grace Coolidge received a gold medal from the National Institute of Social Science.
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Grace Coolidge was active in the Red Cross, civil defense, and scrap drives during World War II.
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Grace Coolidge kept her sense of fun and her aversion to publicity until her death on July 8,1957, at the age of 78.
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Grace Coolidge is buried next to her husband in Plymouth, Vermont.