Who was president in 1927?

April 22 – May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in U.S. history at this time. May 2 – Buck v. Bell decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, permitting compulsory sterilization of people with intellectual disability. read more

John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the President of the United States in 1927. Calvin Coolidge (born July 4, 1872 in Plymouth, Vermont; died January 5, 1933 in Northampton, Massachussetts) succeeded Warren G. Harding as the thirtieth President of the United States, serving between August 2, 1923 and March 4, 1929, including the whole of 1927. read more