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Grace Goodhue Coolidge
Date of Birth: January 3, 1879
Date of Death: July 8, 1957 [78]
Married: October 4, 1905 - Calvin Coolidge
Children: 2 |
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- Grace and Calvin lived across the
street from each other in Northampton, Massachusetts.
- They were married after a two year
engagement
- Grace was very outgoing and enjoyed
a varied social life, while Calvin was quiet and self absorbed,
an interesting mix that led to humorous personality clashes
- Once at a White House garden party
reporters made inquiries of the First Lady, who had been instructed
not to speak to the press, and as a former instructor at the
Clark Institute for the deaf in New York, she obeyed by responding
in sign language
- She was the first First Lady to bring
her own radio to the White House
- Grace was an avant baseball fan, and
collected score cards of the Boston Red Sox
- She was invited to sit in their dugout
during the 1925 World Series
- She was the first wife of a president
to appear in a newsreel made for the Christmas Seal Campaign
- She openly solicited support for her
favorite charity, the Salvation Army
- Her youngest son Calvin Jr. developed
a blister on his foot while playing barefoot tennis on the White
House court, and died of a blood infection shortly thereafter
- With Prohibition in effect she refrained
from serving alcohol in the White House, but lodged her own protest
against the law by naming her collie after a popular scotch drink,
Rob Roy
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