Name/Title
Doll of Grace Anna Goodhue CoolidgeScope and Content
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge
The Wife of the 35th President of the United States
She was born in 1879 to Andrew and Lemira B Goodhue in the Green Mountain City of Burlington Vermont.
Graduated from University of Vermont 1902, taught at Clarke School for the Deaf.
She met Calvin Coolidge in North Hampton and married in 1905 at her parents' home, and lived in a modest apartment. Mrs. Coolidge gave birth to two sons in three years. In 1921 she became the wife of the Vice President and went from a house wife to Washington society.
Grace quickly became the most popular woman in the capital city, She had zest for life and her innate simplicity charmed even the most critical. Her zest for life and her innate simplicity charmed even the most critical. Stylish clothes a frugal husband's one indolence set off her good looks.
Calvin Coolidge became President after President Harding's death, and Grace planned the new administration's social life to her husband liking. When Grace left Washington in 1929, she held the country's respect and love.
President Coolidge in his Autobiography summed up their marriage, "For almost a quarter of a century she was borne with my infirmities, and I have rejoiced in her graces."
First Lady Grace Anna Coolidge died in1957. Her chief activity as she grew older was serving as a trustee of the Clarke School: her great pleasure was the family of her surviving son, John.Acquisition
Accession
2008.0007Source or Donor
Amacher, Dorothy
