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when was thr last time a Republican president completed a 4 year term without a catastrophic event happening

Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)

Calvin Coolidge, a Republican, completed a full four-year term from August 1923 to March 1929 after succeeding Warren G. Harding, followed by winning election in 1924 for a nearly full second term.[1][2] His presidency occurred during the Roaring Twenties, marked by economic prosperity rather than immediate catastrophe, though the Great Mississippi Flood in 1927 prompted limited federal response.[3][4] Scandals from the prior administration lingered but did not erupt into a defining crisis under Coolidge, who distanced himself effectively.[5]

No Republican president since Coolidge has completed a full four-year term without a major event widely viewed as catastrophic. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961) managed two terms amid Cold War tensions like the U-2 incident, Suez Crisis, and civil rights struggles, but these defined his era as turbulent.[6][7] William Howard Taft (1909–1913) finished one term but alienated progressives, leading to party splits without a singular disaster.[8]

Earlier examples like Chester A. Arthur (1881–1885) involved party defeats and reform pushes post-assassination, not uneventful stability.[9] Defining "catastrophic" as economic collapse, war, scandal, or disaster, Coolidge stands as the last with relative calm before the 1929 crash under Hoover.[10][3]

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