Full Name: John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; Profession: American attorney, Republican politician, and 30th President of the United States who also served as governor of Massachusetts, vice president, and held multiple local offices in Northampton. Nationality: American; Born: July 4, 1872; Birthplace: Plymouth Notch, Vermont, United States; Generation: late‑19th‑century New England generation that came of age during the Gilded Age and helped shape the business-friendly, conservative politics of the Progressive Era and the Roaring Twenties; Chinese Zodiac: Monkey (1872 is a Year of the Monkey in the traditional Chinese calendar, making him symbolically clever, quick-witted, and resourceful); Zodiac Sign: Cancer (born under the cardinal water sign Cancer, associated with emotional sensitivity, protectiveness, and strong attachment to home and family). Age in 2026: 154 (if living, though he actually died at age 60 in 1933); Marital Status: Married to Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge from October 4, 1905, until his death, forming a complementary partnership in which her warm, outgoing personality balanced his reserved demeanor; Children: Two sons, John Coolidge and Calvin Coolidge Jr., the elder surviving into adulthood and the younger dying tragically in 1924 after an infection following a tennis injury, a loss that deeply affected the presidential couple; Description: John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was a reserved, frugal, and taciturn New England lawyer born to an old Vermont farming family who worked his way up through city and state politics to become governor of Massachusetts and then vice president, unexpectedly assuming the presidency in 1923 upon Warren G. Harding’s death and guiding the United States through a period of rapid economic expansion in the “Roaring Twenties” with a philosophy of limited federal government, budgetary restraint, low taxes, and strong confidence in private enterprise, earning the nickname “Silent Cal” for his sparse, dry, and carefully measured speech, embodying traditional Yankee virtues of thrift, rectitude, and duty, while overseeing policies such as high tariffs and restrictive immigration laws and choosing not to run in 1928 so he could retire to private life in Northampton, where he wrote his autobiography and remained a symbol of understated leadership and personal integrity amid the exuberant and sometimes speculative spirit of his era. Cause of Death: coronary thrombosis on January 5, 1933, at his home, The Beeches, in Northampton, Massachusetts, after a sudden heart attack that ended his life quietly and without prolonged suffering