Calvin's Dream: Achieving The American Dream

Achieving the “American Dream” was the Coolidge value with the greatest impact. Everyone wants to achieve the “American Dream” and Coolidge did just that. As a young boy, Calvin and his father wanted Calvin to be a lawyer. Calvin went to a country school all the way up until his graduation at the age of thirteen. To enhance his education, he enrolled into two academies before being accepted into Amherst College. After graduation, he moved to Northampton to study law with a firm. He couldn’t afford law school so he found a cheaper way of learning. At this point, Calvin achieved his “American Dream” because he learned law and became a lawyer. Eventually, after learning enough law, Calvin broke off and started his own firm. Calvin would take another …show more content…
Little did he know, he would become a successful politician. In 1898, Calvin joined the Northampton City Council and eventually would take the roles of city solicitor and clerk of courts. Taking on this job wasn’t part of his “American Dream”, but after experiencing the work, Calvin had a change in heart about his desired job. His dream would change and go into another path making his over “American Dream” a complete dream. In 1906, he would advance even more by entering the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Still not settling, he would become Governor Massachusetts in 1918. In 1920, Calvin ran for President of the United States, but lost in the Republican caucus. The winner, Warren G. Harding, would invite Calvin to be his Vice President, and he accepted. Harding would die in office and Calvin would take over the presidency. In 1924, Calvin ran for President of the United States and won. The victory of the presidential race was the completion of his dream. After serving, he had officially became a lawyer and a president. The president side of his dream was not known at the beginning of his life, but it created a two-side dream, which makes his “American Dream” more