Stickney was president of the Ludlow Savings Bank and Trust Company . He was clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1882 to 1892 and was state 's attorney for Windsor County from 1882 to 1884 and again from 1890 to 1892 . He was elected in 1892 to represent Ludlow in the Vermont General Assembly , and served until 1896 ; he was selected to serve as Speaker of the House in his first term , and held the post during his entire House tenure . Elected to the office of Governor of Vermont in 1900 , he served from October 4 , 1900 to October 3 , 1902 . Sargent served as Stickney 's Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs ( chief assistant ) . A cousin of the Calvin Coolidge family , Stickney appointed Coolidge 's father John Coolidge to his military staff with the rank of colonel . As governor , he favored abolishing the office of Tax Commissioner . During his administration , legislation was passed establishing the boundary line between Massachusetts and Vermont . After serving one term , he returned to his law practice and banking and insurance interests . He received the honorary degree of LL.D . from Norwich University in 1902 . As a delegate to the 1924 Republican National Convention , he seconded Calvin Coolidge 's nomination for president . In 1926 Stickney was also an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican US Senate nomination . Stickney 's Ludlow home is now a bed and breakfast called " The Governor 's Inn . " Stickney died in Sarasota , Florida and was interred at Pleasant View Cemetery . in Ludlow , Vermont
1924 Republican National Convention
1924 Republican National Convention
William W. Stickney