No, it was the other way around. Calvin Coolidge was Warren G. Harding's running mate in the 1920 U.S. presidential election, so when Harding died on August 2, 1923, Calvin Coolidge became President.
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Yes, he had just completed the term of Warren G. Harding (who died in office in 1923), but in 1924, Coolidge won a full term as president. What was interesting about the 1924 campaign was it was the first to be partially conducted by radio, which was still a new and growing mass medium. A number of candidates (Coolidge among them) spoke over the airwaves, reaching millions of potential voters.
John Tyler after the death of William Henry Harrison Millard Fillmore after the death of Zachary Taylor Andrew Johnson after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Chester Arthur after James Garfield was assassinated. Theodore Roosevelt after William McKinley was assassinated. Calvin Coolidge after the death of Warren Harding Harry Truman after the death of Franklin Roosevelt Lyndon Johnson after John Kennedy was assassinated. Gerald Ford succeeded Richard Nixon after he resigned.
I think Obama was the only one to resign a senate seat to be president. Harding was in the senate during the campaign of 1920, but his term expired the same day as he took office as president. Truman has to resign a senate seat to become vice-president.The following were U.S. Senators at the time of their election to the U.S. Presidency:Warren G. Harding (1920)John F. Kennedy (1960)Barack Obama (2008)
Richard Nixon was the only vice president to become president that did not succeed the president he served under.
Gerald Rudolph Ford was the first vice-president to become president after a resignation.