John Calvin Coolidge was born on Independence Day in Plymouth Notch, Vermont in 1872. He was the son of a village storekeeper. He’s the only US president born on Independence Day. He was the son of John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. and Victoria Josephine Moor. His mother died when he was 12 years old and his only sister Abigail Grace Coolidge died when he was 18. His father remarried to a school teacher and Coolidge grew very close to his step mother. Coolidge went to the Black River Academy and then the Amherst College. After graduation Coolidge started to practice law by being an apprentice in a local law firm in Northampton, Massachusetts. Coolidge also served as the governor of Massachusetts in 1918.
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