100 years ago today Calvin Coolidge became U.S. president unexpectedly after the death of President Harding. Coolidge received the news while vacationing on his family's farm in rural Vermont and his father, a justice of the peace, administered the oath of office at 2:47 am on August 3, 1923.
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100 years ago today Calvin Coolidge became U.S. president unexpectedly after the death of President Harding. Coolidge received the news while vacationing on his family's farm in rural Vermont and his father, a justice of the peace, administered the oath of office at 2:47 am on August 3, 1923.
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