July 3, 2016

John Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, was born in Plymouth Notch, Windsor County, Vermont, on July 4, 1872. He is the only U.S. President to be born on Independence Day. Coolidge was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Calvin Coolidge was the only U.S. president to be sworn in by his own father. In 1923, while visiting his childhood home in Vermont, Coolidge learned of President Warren Harding's death. As it was the middle of the night, Coolidge's father--a notary public--administered the oath by lamp light.