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The second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as president of the United States, was held on Wednesday, March 4, 1925, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 35th presidential inauguration and marked the commencement of the second and only full term of Calvin Coolidge as president and the only term of ...
August 11 – Lee de Forest records Coolidge on the White House lawn with Phonofilm, creating the first audiovisual recording of a US president. [15] August 14 – Coolidge formally accepts his party's nomination for president in 1924. [16] August 16 – The Dawes Plan is signed.
The White House, official residence of the president of the United States, in July 2008. The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2] The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the ...
June 1 – Thomas R. Marshall, 28th vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 (born 1854) June 2 – James Ellsworth, mineowner and banker (born 1849) June 16 – Emmett Hardy, jazz cornet player (born 1903; TB) June 18 – Robert M. La Follette, politician (born 1855) June 26 – James A. Barber, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1841)
On August 2, 1923, President Harding died unexpectedly while on a speaking tour of the Western United States. Vice President Coolidge was visiting his family home in Vermont when he received word by a messenger of Harding's death. [2] Coolidge's father, a notary public, administered the oath of office in the family parlor at 2:47 a.m. on August ...
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Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr. [1] / ˈ k uː l ɪ dʒ / KOOL-ij; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts , he previously served as the 29th vice president from 1921 to 1923 under President Warren G. Harding , and as the 48th ...
Warren G. Harding, the United States’ 29th president who held office from 1921 until he died in 1923, was the first president to deliver a radio address. [4] He addressed the nation at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial on May 30, 1922, an address that served as the day’s equivalent of the State of the Union address.