Document for August 3rd:
Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States

Calvin Coolidge, 1902 - 1935 (National Archives Identifier: 532050 ); Photographs of Bureau of Reclamation Personnel and Secretaries of the Interior, 1900 - 1933; Records of the Bureau of Reclamation, 1889 - 1992; Record Group 115; National Archives.

Calvin Coolidge became the 30th President of the United States in the early morning hours of August 3, 1923, following President Warren G. Harding’s death in San Francisco during his tour of the west. Coolidge was vacationing at his family home in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, and was sworn in by his father, a local notary.
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