Retirement and Death

After his presidency, Coolidge served as chairman of the non-partisan Railroad Commission, as honorary president of the American Foundation for the Blind, as a director of New York Life Insurance Company, as president of the American Antiquarian Society, and as a trustee of Amherst College. Coolidge received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Northampton, at 12:45 p.m., January 5, 1933. His last words to a friend were, “I feel I am no longer fit in these times.” He was 61 yearsold. Coolidge is buried beneath a simple headstone in Notch Cemetery.