Richard Bradford Coolidge | |
Office: | 9th Mayor of Medford, Massachusetts |
Term Start: | January 2, 1923 |
Term End: | 1926 |
Predecessor: | Benjamin Haines |
Successor: | Edward H. Larkin |
Office2: | Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 25th Middlesex District |
Term Start2: | 1920 |
Term End2: | 1922 |
Office3: | Member of the Medford, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen from Ward 4 |
Term Start3: | 1917 |
Term End3: | 1919 |
Birth Date: | September 14, 1879 |
Birth Place: | Portland, Maine |
Party: | Republican |
Alma Mater: | Tufts College Harvard Law School |
Richard Bradford Coolidge (September 14, 1879 – January 18, 1957) was a Massachusetts politician.
Coolidge was born in the Deering Center area of Portland, Maine. He was brother of Massachusetts politician and Lieutenant Governor Arthur W. Coolidge. He was the fourth cousin of President Calvin Coolidge.[1]
Coolidge graduated from Tufts College in 1902 and served as a trustee of the school from 1924 to 1944 and from 1953 to 1957.[2] He attended Harvard Law School.
Coolidge practiced in the law firm "French and Curtiss."[3]
From 1920 to 1922, Coolidge represented Medford and Winchester in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served as the clerk of the judiciary committee.[4] Coolidge served as the mayor of Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, from 1923 to 1926.[5] He later served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Massachusetts in 1928.
Coolidge died in Concord, Massachusetts in 1957.