President Coolidge Connection
Myrtle Ida Cady was distantly related to President Calvin Coolidge.
President Coolidge was the 30th President and served from 1923 through 1928.
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John Calvin Coolidge (went by Calvin) was a Republican lawyer from Vermont who became the governor of Massachusetts. He ran for Vice President with Warren G. Harding and became the President in 1923 when President Harding died. He ran for, and was elected, President in 1924. He was known as a small-government conservative much like President Ronald Reagan.
Captain John Coolidge served in the Revolutionary war, part of the time as a Minuteman and later as a captain in the home guards.
The chart below shows how Myrtle Cady was related through the wife (Betsy E. Coolidge) of her grandfather Jacob Cady.
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