Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge

Grace Coolidge with her dog Rob Roy by Howard Chandler Christy. The official White House portrait once hung in the Red Room, and today hangs in the China Room. The portrait was given to the U.S. by Pi Beta Phi Fraternity.
Born	January 3, 1879
Died	July 8, 1957
Occupation	First Lady of the United States
Predecessor	Florence Harding
Successor	Lou Henry Hoover
Spouse	Calvin Coolidge
Children	John, Calvin
Parents	Andrew Goodhue and Lemira B. Goodhue

Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge (January 3, 1879 – July 8, 1957) was wife of Calvin Coolidge and First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Image File history File links GGCchristy. ... Howard Chandler Christy (January 10, 1873—March 3, 1952) was an American artist. ... The Red Room, looking northwest. ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Martha Washington, Original First Lady of the United States. ... White House portrait Florence Kling Harding (August 15, 1860–November 21, 1924), wife of Warren G. Harding, was First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923. ... Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944) Louise Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was the wife of President Herbert Hoover and First Lady of the United States. ... John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. ... John Coolidge (September 6, 1906 — May 31, 2000) was the first son of Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge. ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. ... Martha Washington, Original First Lady of the United States. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Grace Anna Goodhue grew up in the Green Mountain city of Burlington, Vermont, the only child of Andrew and Lemira B. Goodhue. While still a girl she heard of a school for deaf children in Northampton, Massachusetts, and eventually decided to share its challenging work. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1902 where she was a charter member of the Vermont Beta chapter of Pi Beta Phi Women's Fraternity. She went to teach at the Clarke School for the Deaf after graduation. Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and is the shire town of Chittenden County, Vermont. ...   Northampton is a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts in the USA. The population was 28,978 at the 2000 census. ... The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, or simply The University of Vermont, is a public university located in Burlington, Vermont. ... The Clarke School for the Deaf was founded in 1867 in Northampton, Massachusetts as the first permanent oral school for the Deaf in the United States and has gained an international reputation as a pioneer and a leader in the field of auditory/oral education. ...

In Northampton she met Calvin Coolidge; where they belonged to the same boating, picnicking, whist-club set, composed largely of members of the local Congregational Church. In October 1905 they were married at her parents' home. They lived modestly; they moved into half of a duplex two weeks before their first son John Coolidge was born, and she budgeted expenses well within the income of a struggling small-town lawyer. Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practising congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... John Coolidge (September 6, 1906 — May 31, 2000) was the first son of Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge. ...

To Grace Coolidge may be credited a full share in her husband's rise in politics. She worked hard, kept up appearances, took her part in town activities, attended her church, and offset his shyness with a gay friendliness. She bore a second son, named Calvin Jr. in 1908, and it was she who played backyard baseball with the boys. As Coolidge was rising to the rank of governor, the family kept the duplex; he rented a dollar-and-a-half room in Boston and came home on weekends. Boston is a town and small port c. ...

In 1921, as wife of the Vice President, Grace Coolidge went from her housewife's routine into Washington society and quickly became the most popular woman in the capital.

After Harding's death and Calvin Coolidge's succession to the Presidency, she planned the new administration's social life as her husband wanted it: unpretentious but dignified. As she wrote later, she was "I, and yet, not I--this was the wife of the President of the United States and she took precedence over me...." Under the sorrow of her younger son's sudden death at 16, she never let grief interfere with her duties as First Lady. Tact and gaiety made her one of the most popular hostesses of the White House, and she left Washington in 1929 with the country's respect and love. She received a gold medal from the[National Institute of Social Science]. In 1931 she was voted one of America's twelve greatest living women.

For greater privacy in Northampton, the Coolidges bought "The Beeches," a large house with spacious grounds. Calvin Coolidge died there in 1933. He had summed up their marriage in his Autobiography: "For almost a quarter of a century she was borne with my infirmities, and I have rejoiced in her graces." After his death she sold The Beeches, bought a smaller house, and in time undertook new ventures she had longed to try: her first airplane ride, her first trip to Europe. She kept her aversion to publicity and her sense of fun until her death in 1957 at the age of 78. Her chief activity as she grew older was serving as a trustee of the Clarke School. The Clarke School for the Deaf was founded in 1867 in Northampton, Massachusetts as the first permanent oral school for the Deaf in the United States and has gained an international reputation as a pioneer and a leader in the field of auditory/oral education. ...

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Reference

• Original text based on White House biography

External links

• Grace Coolidge: First Lady of Baseball
• Wombats and Such: Family Pets of Grace and Calvin Coolidge
• Find-A-Grave profile for Grace Coolidge