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The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...
On December 5, 1923, The New York Times wrote that “the voice of President Coolidge, addressing Congress tomorrow, will be carried [by radio] over a greater portion of the United States and will be heard by more people than the voice of any man in history.” [4] He spoke in Washington, D.C., and the address could be heard on radio stations ...
Looking back at stories that appeared in the O’Fallon Progress 125, 100, 75, and 50 years ago: 125 years ago, Sept. 15, 1899 “School opened Monday with an attendance of 251, divided as follows.
1 president served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate, John Tyler. 1 president served as party leader of the United States Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson. 1 president had a PhD, Woodrow Wilson. 1 president had neither prior government nor military experience before becoming president, Donald Trump.
June 2 – Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act and the Revenue Act of 1924 into law. June 7 – Coolidge signs the Anti-Heroin Act of 1924 into law. June 10–12 – Coolidge is chosen as the 1924 presidential nominee for the Republican Party. July 7 – Coolidge's son, Calvin Coolidge Jr., dies of sepsis at the age of 16. [12]
Coolidge opened his speech by paying tribute to recently deceased President Warren G. Harding: Since the close of the last Congress the Nation has lost President Harding. The world knew his kindness and his humanity, his greatness and his character. He has left his mark upon history. He has made justice more certain and peace more secure.
In the 1920s, sculptor Gutzon Borglum and President Calvin Coolidge selected George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln (L to R) to appear on Mount Rushmore—it later became an iconic symbol of presidential greatness, chosen to represent the nation's birth, growth, development and preservation, respectively.