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- Calvin Coolidge, 30th President, was sworn in by lamplight
in his Vermont home at 2:47 a.m. August 3, 1923, following
the death of President Warren G. Harding.
- Chester A. Arthur, 21st President, was born at Fairfield.
- Justin Morrill, Vermont's Senator and Congressman in the late 1800's, was the primary sponsor for the Land Grant College system.
- Warren R. Austin was the first U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations.
- Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, early Mormon leaders,
were born in Sharon and Whitingham, respectively.
- Stephen A. Douglas, debating opponent to Abraham Lincoln
in their 1858 senatorial campaign in Illinois, was born
in Brandon in 1813.
- Admiral George Dewey, naval hero in the Spanish American
War, was a Montpelier native.
- The first U.S. canal was built at Bellows Falls in 1802.
- Thomas Davenport invented the electric motor at Brandon
in 1837.
- The first U.S. ski tow was built at Woodstock in 1934.
- The first globe made in America was by James Wilson of
Bradford in 1810.
- In 1777 the Vermont Constitution abolished slavery...the
first ever to do this.
- Vermont elected the first woman Lt. Governor in the nation, Consuelo N. Bailey,
in 1954.
- In 1903 a Burlington doctor, Horatio N. Jackson, was the first person to cross
the entire U.S. by car.
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