Coolidge, Marcus Allen, 1865-1947

LC control no.	n 2004071488
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Coolidge, Marcus Allen, 1865-1947 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1865-10-06
Death date	1947-01-23
Place of birth	Westminster (Mass.)
Place of death	Miami Beach (Fla.)
Affiliation	United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Contractors Industrialists Mayors Legislators
Found in	NUCMC data from Fitchburg State College for Senator Marcus A. Coolidge collection, 1889-1950 (Marcus Allen Coolidge; 1865-1947; Fitchburg, Mass.; contractor, businessman, mayor, U.S. Senate (1931-1937); Democrat) Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, Nov. 30, 2015 (Coolidge, Marcus Allen, (son of Frederick Spaulding Coolidge), a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Westminster, Worcester County, Mass., October 6, 1865; attended the public schools and Bryant & Stratton Commercial College at Boston, Mass.; employed by his father in the manufacture of chairs and rattan; moved to Fitchburg, Mass., in 1895; engaged in the contracting business, building street railways, water works, and bridges 1883-1905, and in the manufacture of machine tools in 1905; mayor of Fitchburg 1916; appointed in 1919 by President Woodrow Wilson as special envoy to Poland representing the Peace Commission; chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1920; trustee and president of Cushing Academy at Ashburnham, Mass.; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1931, to January 3, 1937; was not a candidate for renomination in 1936; chairman, Committee on Immigration (Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses); resumed his former business pursuits and resided in Fitchburg, Mass.; died at Miami Beach, Fla., January 23, 1947; interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Westminster, Mass.)
Associated language	eng