Louis A. Coolidge Explained

Office:United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Term Start:March 17, 1908
Term End:April 10, 1909
President:Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Birth Date:8 October 1861
Birth Place:Natick, Massachusetts
Death Place:Milton, Massachusetts
Alma Mater:Harvard College

Louis Arthur Coolidge (October 8, 1861 – May 31, 1925) was an American journalist and Treasury official.

Early life

Coolidge was born on October 8, 1861, in Natick, Massachusetts. He was a son of William Leander Coolidge and Sarah Isabella (Washburn) Coolidge.

His paternal grandparents were Timothy Coolidge and Lowly Ann (Howe) Coolidge. His father was a nephew of U.S. Senator and Vice President Henry Wilson and served as the executor of Wilson's estate.[1]

Coolidge graduated from Harvard College.

Career

In October 1883, Coolidge joined the staff of the Springfield Republican where he worked for four and a half years. He resigned in April 1888 to move to Washington to become private secretary to then U.S. Representative Henry Cabot Lodge.

At the beginning of the 51st United States Congress on March 4, 1889, he was appointed Clerk of the House Committee on the election of President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress, of which Lodge was chairman. While in Washington, he worked as the Washington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser and Evening Record[2] and was president of the Gridiron Club.[3]

In 1908, he succeeded John H. Edwards as Assistant Secretary of Treasury, serving under Treasury Secretaries George B. Cortelyou and Franklin MacVeagh during the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.[4]

In April 1924, while he was Treasurer of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, he announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator.[5] His run was unsuccessful and by March 1925, he resigned from the United Shoe Corporation,[6] months before his death on May 31, 1925.

Personal life

On January 2, 1890, Coolidge was married to Helen Irene Pickerill (1871–1947), the daughter of Frank B. Pickerill and Allie Sharpe Pickerill.[2] Together, they were the parents of:

Coolidge died on May 31, 1925, in Milton, Massachusetts.[10] After a funeral at the Old South Church in Boston, he was buried at Dell Park Cemetery in Natick.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Nason . Elias . July 1, 1878 . Biographical Sketch of Henry Wilson . New England Historical and Genealogical Register . 32 . Boston, MA . David Clapp & Son . 267.
  2. Book: of 1883 . Harvard College (1780-) Class . Secretary's Report: no. 3 . 1890 . 23 December 2021 . en.
  3. LOUIS ARTHUR COOLIDGE . 23 December 2021 . Harvard University.
  4. News: Times . Special to The New York . POST FOR L.A. COOLIDGE.; He Is to Succeed J.H. Edwards as Assistant Secretary of Treasury. . 3 December 2021 . . 13 February 1908.
  5. News: L.A. Coolidge Enters Bay State Race . 23 December 2021 . . 17 April 1924.
  6. News: L.A. Coolidge Quits Business. . 23 December 2021 . . 12 March 1925.
  7. http://digital.wellesleyfreelibrary.org/1955/files/assets/seo/page137.html "Robert Sturtevant Died in Nashville"
  8. http://digital.wellesleyfreelibrary.org/1955/files/assets/seo/page501.html "Pfc. Roger Sturtevant Buried in Framingham"
  9. Revolution . Sons of the American . The SAR Magazine . 1924 . 131 . 23 December 2021 . National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution . en.
  10. News: LOUIS A. COOLIDGE, PUBLICIST, DEAD; Was a Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury -- Long a Newspaper Man. . 23 December 2021 . . 1 June 1925.
  11. News: Louis A. Coolidge Buried. . 23 December 2021 . . 6 June 1925.