After President Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack, Vice President Calvin Coolidge succeeded him and became America’s 30th president. He was born on July 4, 1872, and died on January 5, 1933. People often referred to him as “Silent Cal” because he would only speak when he deemed necessary. He was also the former Republican governor of Massachusetts. Unfortunately for Coolidge, he had to clean up the aftermath of the Harding Administration corruption scandal. Coolidge lead the nation through most of the Roaring Twenties however some of his policies contributed to the Great Depression. This isn’t to say that the people didn’t like him, on the contrary the people for the most part loved him. His honesty helped the people restore their faith …show more content…
The public took a major liking to Coolidge when the Boston Police Force incident took place because of his response to the event. The riots and protests started because the police officers wanted better pay and working conditions. People were getting hurt in these riots so Coolidge called in the state guard to put a stop to it. Soon after things had settled down Labor Leaders asked him to rehire the police officers who had lost their jobs for striking. In response Coolidge said “there is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.” This statement really resonated with the people because he was standing up for them. He was chosen as the vice president candidate to run under presidential candidate Warren G. Harding. In the end, him and Harding one the election with little challenge from the competitors’ side. They both took office in March 1921. Harding and Coolidge’s election was one of the first elections up to that point in time to be so one sided with a ratio of 60 to 30. However, it was unknown that two years after Harding took office he would die due to a heart attack at the age of fifty-seven. Because of Harding’s unexpected death Coolidge took office as president. It wasn’t an easy time for Coolidge though. When Harding had died, he had been involved in the “Teapot Dome Oil-lease” scandal. Coolidge worked hard to clean up the mess
After returning to America from Cuba, Theodore was elected as the Vice President to President McKinley in 1900. However, in 1901, McKinley was assassinated and Theodore consequently became the president of the United States. At the age of 42, Theodore was the youngest person ever to be a U.S. president. Theodore did not wait long to make changes as the president. Theodore changed the name of the big white presidential building from “Executive Mansion” to “White House.”
Because of the plague known as the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover is often seen as one of the worst presidents in American history. He enacted policies such as the Hawley-Smoot Tariff that flushed America deeper into the depression. Hoover didn't understand that to solve a crisis such as a depression, he needed to interact directly with the people by using programs such as social security and welfare. Instead, Hoover had the idea that if he were to let the depression run its course, it would eventually end. There are three things that can be used to define Hoover's presidency during the depression, his actions, his mentality toward fixing things, and the fact that he helped pave the way for the “New Deal”
Still, Roosevelt's historical reputation is deservedly high. In attacking the Great Depression he did much to develop a partial welfare state in the United States and to make the federal government an agent of social and economic reform. His administration indirectly encouraged the rise of organized labor and greatly invigorated the Democratic party. His foreign policies, while occasionally devious, were shrewd enough to sustain domestic unity and the allied coalition in World War II. Roosevelt was a president of stature.
In 1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt took over as President after William McKinley was assassinated. The country had many opportunities ahead but was in need of some changes that the American people were all too ready for. Roosevelt was brought up in a well to do family and had was Harvard educated.
John Calvin Coolidge, soon to be the 30th president of the United States, was born on Independence Day, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. His father, who was also named John Calvin Coolidge Sr. was a hard working farmer, storekeeper, and businessman. Coolidge Sr. cared for his son after his wife died of tuberculosis when Calvin was just twelve. Abigail Grace Coolidge, Calvin's younger sister died when she was just fifteen, a few years after their mother had died. After Coolidge graduated Black River Academy, he went on to study law at Amherst College, Massachusetts, then passing his bar exam in 1897, which is an exam students must take before they can become attorneys. A year later after his bar exam, he opened his own law office in Northampton where he handled real estate deals (land and buildings) and bankruptcies. He gained reputation for being a hard working man and solving problems his own way --by staying out of court. Shortly after, he married Grace Anna Goodhue, a teacher at Clarke School for the Deaf. They had two sons, one of which was Calvin Jr., who passed on from an unt...
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of The United States Of America. He was a writer, a naturalist and a soldier. He stretched the forces of the administration and of the national government in backing of the general population enthusiasm toward clashes between huge business and work and guided the country to a dynamic part in world governmental issues. Theodore Roosevelt certainly helped the country in the right direction. He paved the way for reform, especially trust regulation. His nickname as the trustbuster was truly earned as he made many constant efforts in those areas, as well as others. His Square Deal plan targeted trust regulation, labor relations, and public health and conservation, the three
In 1932, Roosevelt was elected president. On the other hand, Teddy instead, campaigned for Vice President in 1901, with President William McKinley. He was a Republican, who served as Governor of New York. After the election ended, William McKinley was assassinated in September 1901. Theodore Roosevelt has been sworn in as the 26th President of the United States.
President Franklin Roosevelt was one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States. He created economic stability when the United States was suffering through the Great Depression. In his first three months of office, known as the Hundred Days, Roosevelt took immediate action to help the struggling nation.1 "In a period of massive unemployment, a collapsed stock market, thousands of banks closing for lack of liquidity, and agricultural prices fallen below the cost of production," Roosevelt passed a series of relief measures.2 These relief measures, known as the New Deal, provided help for individuals and businesses to prevent bankruptcy. Also, the New Deal is responsible for social security, welfare, and national parks. A further reason why Roosevelt is considered a great president is because he was a good role model for being determined in his...
A. Garfield. Garfield was our twentieth President of the U.S. He was also the second to be assassinated while still in his term. He was killed by Charles Guiteau, a crazy person seeking office, on July 2nd, 1881. Since he had such a short term as President because of his death many people do not understand the true influence Garfield had on people in his life.
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president; he also took office after the death of a president, Warren Harding died suddenly August 2, 1923. Coolidge sent 5,000 troops to Nicaragua without congressional approval.
Herbert Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa, and was the first president born west of the Mississippi River. (Biography.com pag.1) Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. When the election of 1932 came around, Hoover blamed the depression on factors beyond his control, but the public either didn’t care or wasn’t buying it, and Franklin Roosevelt won the election. (Biography.com pag.2)
President Roosevelt initiated the only program that could pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s New Deal got the country through one of the worst financial catastrophe the U.S. has ever been through. Diggerhistory.info biography on FDR states,” In March 13 million people were unemployed… In his first “Hundred Days”, he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and those in danger of losing their farms and homes”(Digger History Biography 1). Roosevelt’s first hundred days brought relief to the unemployed. He opened the AAA (Agriculture Adjustment Administration) and the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps.). The administration employed many young men in need of jobs all around the country. Roosevelt knew that the economy’s biggest problem was the widespread unemployment. Because of Roosevelt’s many acts and agencies, lots of young men and women around the country were getting jobs so the economy was healing. According to Roosevelt’s biography from the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, “Another Flurry of New Deal Legislation followed in 1935, including the WPA (Work Projects Admi...
Fall discreetly allowed oil companies to pump out oil for themselves to sell. He also accepted bribes totaling more than three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000). These scandals gave U.S. Americans a different view of the government by bringing distrust and losing aspiration in the government. Warren G. Harding endorsed his inauguration address in March 1921 saying to return to traditional isolationism, “There isn’t anything the matter with world civilization, except that humanity is viewing it through a vision impaired in a cataclysmal war. Poise has been disturbed, and nerves have been racked, and fever has rendered men irrational; sometimes there have been draughts upon the dangerous cup of barbarity, and men have wandered far from safe paths, but the human procession still marches in the right direction…. (return to normalcy, 2001-2015)” Harding showed a degree of tolerance. He delivered a speech in 1921 demanding higher rights for African Americans and supported the anti-lynching bill and anti-Semitism. Harding also signed an act creating child health care centers and also wanted arms reduction by sponsoring the Washington naval conference.” “On August 2, 1923, Warren G. Harding became the sixth of eight presidents to die in office, suffering an apparent heart attack while holed up in San Francisco’s Palace
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president during 1923- 1929. He was born on July 4, 1872. His mother died when he was about 12 years old. After his mom's death, the next year he entered Black River Academy and graduated in 1891. He married Grace Anna Goodhue In 1905. Her personality was much different from Calvin's. She was outgoing and talkative while on the otherside Calvin was very shut down just to himself kind of person, known as “ Silent Cal”. Later on the couple had two sons John and Calvin Jr. Calvin became famous during the Boston police strike of 1919. In 1920 he won the election for governor by a record vote. It was 2:30 am on August 3 when Calvin was visiting his family in Vermont when all of a sudden Calvin received a message that
President Roosevelt brought the executive branch of the government into power like never before. He is hated to this day by many people. But for the majority of the country during one of our toughest times, he was what we needed. Without consulting history acknowledging that, it’s impossible to judge what he did very negatively. The old ways weren’t working, and while President Hoover tried to do something, it wasn’t enough. President Roosevelt was more successful with the actions he took for relief during the Great Depression.