Grace Coolidge
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge (born January 3, 1879 in Burlington , Vermont , † July 8, 1957 in Northampton , Massachusetts ) was the wife of US President Calvin Coolidge and the First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929.
Her father was a mechanical engineer Andrew Issaclar Goodhue and her mother was Lemira Barrett Goodhue. Grace was an only child.
She first met Coolidge in the spring of 1905. The couple married on October 4 of that year at their Burlington home. They had two children: John Coolidge (1906–2000) and Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1908–1924), the latter died of complications from blood poisoning .
Grace Coolidge was buried in Plymouth Notch Cemetery.
Fonts (selection)
- The Real Calvin Coolidge. In: Good Housekeeping. April 1935.
- To Autobiography . High Plains Publ., Worland, Wy. 1992, ISBN 1-881019-10-2 .
literature
- Essays
- Lou Henry Hoover: When Mrs. Coolidge Was a Girl. In: The American Girl. November 1926, ISSN 1062-7812 .
- Samuel B. Hand: Grace Coolidge and the Historians. In: Vermont History News. Volume 43, Issue 6, 1992, ISSN 0364-3387 .
- Lydia Coolidge Sayles: Grace Coolidge. My grandmother. In: New England Journal of History. Fall 1998.
- Terri Finneman: Grace Coolidge. In Katherine AS Sibley (Ed.): A Companion to First Ladies. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2016, ISBN 978-1-118-73222-9 , pp. 404-422.
- Monographs
- Ishbel Ross: Grace Coolidge and Her Era. The story of a president's wife . Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, Plymouth, Vt. 1988. (Reprint of New York 1962 edition)
- Gloria May Stoddard: Grace and Cal. A Vermont Love Story . The New England Press, Shelburne 1989, ISBN 0-933050-77-1 .
- Cynthia D. Bittinger: Grace Coolidge. Sudden Star . Nova History Publ., New York 2005, ISBN 1-59454-473-5 .
Web links
Commons : Grace Coolidge - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Biography on the White House website
- National First Ladies' Library
- Grace Coolidge in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)
- Grace Coolidge in the database of Find a Grave (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coolidge, Grace |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goodhue, Grace Anna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American first lady |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burlington , Vermont |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1957 |
| Place of death | Northampton , Massachusetts |