Former First Lady Grace Coolidge (1879-1957) was a prominent supporter of the Wagner-Rogers legislation of 1939, which would have admitted 20,000 German refugee children to the United States outside the quota system. Mrs. Coolidge, who had served as First Lady from 1923 to 1929, announced that she and her neighbors in Northampton, Massachusetts, would personally care for twenty-five of the children.

Sources: Wyman, Paper Walls, p.78;
Medoff and Bittinger, “Grace Coolidge and Anne Frank.”