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Calvin Coolidge

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

Timeline of Events

1923

8.3.1923

Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as the 30th President of the United States in the early morning following the death of Warren G. Harding the previous day.

1924

2.12.1924

Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.

2.22.1924

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.

6.2.1924

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.

1925

3.4.1925

Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.