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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsMarcus Allen COOLIDGE
(1865-1947)
Senate Years of Service:
1931-1937Party: DemocratCOOLIDGE, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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