Show Hundred Years Between I Inauguration of Coolidge and nd John Quincy Adams I 1 Fourth o of New England Presidents Takes Office as Coming From Massachusetts Although I a Nat Native ve o of Vermont WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Feb 28 By A A. A The P.-The oath of office VV will be administered to Calvin Coolidge as president in his llis own right by virtue of his election by the people exactly years to the day from the he inauguration of the l last st preceding preceding preceding pre pre- pre pre- receding re- re ceding Massachusetts Massachusetts' president J John ohn Quincy Quiney Adams Although born in Vermont Mr I I I j I Coolidge from the days of his youth through his college years and political life until he came to Washington as vice president has been a Massachusetts man He lie Is the fourth New England I president The others in addition to John Quincy Quiney Adams were John I Adams of ot Massachusetts who 1 served sered from 1797 1791 to 1801 and Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire Hampshire Hamp Hamp- shire who served from 1853 to 1857 Pierce was a Democrat rat but both were of ot the Federalist Federalist Fed Fed- faith Fed j All of the New ew England presidents presidents presidents dents have come come Into power under unusual circumstances ces I John J John ohI Adams was was' selected after he lie had hari be been vl vice e president under W Washington and before political I parties were formally organized In Inthe inthe the countr country Moreover there were no nominations that year the people people people peo peo- I merely voting their preference rence He won over Thomas Jefferson b by only three electoral votes He was the last of the Federalist presidents presidents dents as as' as the Republican Demo cratic party of Jefferson was dev developing de- de eloping v and In 1800 elected their l leader ader over Adams I John Quincy Quiney Adams was put forward forward for for- ward a as ag a coalition candidate at a time when Andrew Jackson was de developing developing developing de- de as a national political I lead leader r. r The political situation was such that the election was thrown into the th house where Adams won I on the first ballot Franklin Pierce was elected when the Whig party was in its death throes and the movement which I resulted In the organization of ot the tho Republican party was slowly gathering gathering gath gath- ering force Nominated in convention convention convention conven conven- tion on the ninth forty ballot allot he was elected by an overwhelming majority majority- In the electoral college All the New England presidents have come into office fortified by bv bylong I long experience in public affair John Adams had been a Revolutionary Revolutionary leader John Quincy Quiney I Adams had lad served under his father when the latter was vas minister r to England and end as secretary of state under Monroe Pierce h had d been a a. brigadier brigadier brigadier brig brig- adier general in the tho Mexican war wari and a United States senator while i Coolidge has had twenty-six twenty years ears II of almost interrupted service in p public b ic office |