Secrets & Scandals Of America’s First Ladies

Grace Coolidge

Grace Coolidge became a respectable woman in her own right before marrying future president Calvin Coolidge. She graduated from the University of Vermont, becoming the first First Lady with a four-year undergraduate degree. Grace met Calvin in 1903 and married him nearly two years later. Calvin and Grace Coolidge didn’t have one of the more romantic marriages on White House record but where they lacked in romance they made up for in sense of humor. When the couple visited a chicken farm in Maryland, the First Lady witnessed a rooster copulating with a hen. She decided this was the perfect opportunity to play a joke on the president.