Calvin Coolidge
Republican. Politician. Lawyer. Amherst College. Phi Gamma Delta.
Relative Joseph Coolidge, was a partner of Russell and Co. Samuel Russell was related William Huntingdon Russell, Co-founder of Skull and Bones.
Relative Harvard Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge (Owl Club)[11,p62], co-founded the Council on Foreign Relations.[11,p308] The name of Council on Foreign Relations was adopted, and it was decided to sponsor a magazine, for as one of the Directors remarked, “The Council must publish or perish.” The men in control were a strong lot, as the Directorate for 1922 shows, and besides the governing body, most of whem took an active interest in the management, the Council had on its list of members such as President Harry A. Garfield [Son. of President Garfield. Oxford, All Souls. Inns Court, London. Friend of Woodrow Wilson], Prof. C. H. Haskins, Thomas W. Lamont, Hugh Gibson, Colonel House [Advisor to Former President Woodrow Wilson. Alpha Delta Phi], Walter Lippmann, Raymond B. Fosdick, Owen D. Young [Young Plan], Joseph P. Cotton, James Byrne (Freemason) etc.
Note: Wife was a member of the Order of Eastern Star and his son, John became a member of the Wyllys Lodge No. 99, West Hartford, Conn on Oct 18, 1944. While governor of Mass, Coolidge addressed the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, having this to say: “It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons, and I have been able in that way to judge the tree by its fruits. I know your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and of character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and Nation.”[10]
Whilst at Amherst, Coolidge was profoundly influenced by philosophy professor Charles Edward Garman, a Congregational mystic, with a neo-Hegelian philsophy.
See Skull and Bones and Council of Foreign Relations connection below.
25 Aug 1928 - Richard E. Bryd (Freemason) begins the first leg of his flight to the South Pole in Antartica. Reaching the pole in November, Byrd explores and studies the continent for the next twenty years. Search Mind Map … Operation High Jump.
25 May 1928 - The United States recognises Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang (KMT) nationalist government of China and signs a tarrify treaty with the chinese.
21 May 1927 - Lindbergh completes the first transatlantic flight.
25 May 1926 - Supreme court rules (Myers v. U.S.) that the president has the right to remove cabinet members at his own discretion. Nulifying Andrew Johnson ruling in 1868 requring conscent of senate. Chief Justice was William Howard Taft (S&B1878).
10 Oct 1926 - Naval Depot at Lake Denmark, New Jersey explodes after being struck by lightning leaving 31 dead and $93m in damages.
10 May 1926 - Marines land in Nicaragua to quiet a revolt and remain under 1933.
9 May 1926 - First successful flight over North Pole by Richard E. Byrd (Freemason) and Floyd Bennett.
5 May 1925 - John T. Scopes, a public school teacher in Dayton, Tennesse is arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow represents Scopes. Scope loses, paying $100 fine. Search mind map ALCU.
30 Aug 1924 - Dawes Plan Signed. Search mind map.
15 Sep 1923 - Governor J.C. Walton places Oklahoma under Martial Law in order to suppress the increasing terrorism of the KKK.
Mar 1924 - Coolidge replaced the Director of the Bureau of Investigation (became FBI) William J. Burns (friend of Harding (Freemason)) with J. Edgar Hoover (Freemason).
2 Aug 1923 to 4 Mar 1929 - 30th President of the United States (VP: None 1923 to 1925. Charles G. Dawes (Delta Upsilon) 1925 to 1929)
4 Mar 1921 to 2 Aug 1923 - 29th Vice President of the United States by President Warren G. Harding (Freemason)
2 Jan 1919 to 6 Jan 1921 - 48th Governor of Massachusetts.
6 Jan 1916 to 2 Jan 1919 - 46th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.
1914 to 1915 - President of Massachusetts Senate.
Peceded by Levi H. Greenwood. Succeeded by Henry Gordon Wells.
1912 to 1915 - Member of the Massachusetts Senate.
1910 to 1911 - Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts.
1907 to 1908 - Member of Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Died 5 Jan 1933, from Heart Attack. Age 60.
Skull and Bones / Others / Related - to be completed
Calvin Coolidge was a distant relative Joseph Coolidge who was connected with the Russell and Co (Search mind map - Samuel Russels’ cousin William Huntingdon Russell (S&B1933) co-founded Skull and Bones. Joseph also organised the United Fruit Company (Search mind map … Allen and John Dulles)
Son, Archibald C. Coolidge, was a co-founder of the Council of Foreign Relations (Search mind map)
Frank B. Kellogg (Freemason)
14 Jan 1924 to 10 Feb 1925 - 45th United States Secretary of State by President Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover (Bohemian)
14 Jan 1924 to 10 Feb 1925 - United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom by President Calvin Coolidge.
Hugh R. Wilson (S&B 1906)
1927 to 1937 - U.S. Minister to Switzerland
Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888)
1927 to 1929 - Governor General of the Philippines
Frederick Trubee Davison (S&B 1918)
1926 to 1933 - Assistant Secretary of War for Air
Kenneth F. Simpson (S&B 1917)
1925 to 1927 - Assistant U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York
James Eugene Neville (S&B 1921) - Assistant US Attorney, Coolidge Admin by President Calvin Coolidge
E. Sheldon Whitehouse (S&B 1905)
1928 to 1929 - Counselor of American Embassy in Paris, Madrid, Spain.
1921 to 1928 - Counselor of American Embassy in Paris, France.
William Singer Moorhead (S&B 1906)
1922 to 1924 - Chairman, US Tax Simplification Board by President Warren G. Harding (Freemason)** and Calvin Coolidge.
James Eugene Neville (S&B 1921)
? to ? - Assistant US Attorney, to Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty (Freemason. Mark Hana conn.), Harlan F. Stone (Phi Beta Kappa)** and John G. Sargent by President Calvin Coolidge.
[1] - Whitehouse.gov - Calvin Coolidge
[2] - Spartacus-educational.com - Calvin Coolidge
[3] - Millercenter.org - Calvin Coolidge - Key Events
[4] - Presidentual-power.org - Calvin Coolidge - Timeline
[5] - FYI - Wiki - Calvin Coolidge
[6] - The Still Report - The Money Masters, 1800 - reference to Collidge
[7] 30th President. Coolidge assumed the Presidency following the death of Harding. 10,000 Famous Freemasons informs us that Coolidge was “A non-Mason, his wife was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and his son, John, became a member of Wyllys Lodge No. 99, West Hartford, Connecticut on October 18, 1944. While governor of Massachusetts Coolidge addressed the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, having this to say: “It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons, and I have been able in that way to judge the tree by it fruits. I know of your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and of character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and Nation.”1 1 Denslow, 10,000 Famous Freemasons, 1957
[10] - 10,000 Famous Freemasons by William R. Denslow Vol l [A to D]
[11] - Book - Archibald Cary Coolidge: life and letters by Coolidge, Harold Jefferson, 1870-1934
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