Calvin Coolidge

Coolidge became the 30th president upon Harding's sudden death. He was vacationing at his family home in Vermont when he received the news and was sworn in by his father, a notary public, in a historic ceremony.

Coolidge won the 1924 presidential election in his own right, defeating Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert M. La Follette. His victory reflected public approval of his conservative policies and the economic prosperity of the Roaring Twenties.

Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924, which established national origins quotas that severely restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and virtually banned immigration from Asia. The act remained the basis of U.S. immigration policy until 1965.