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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsLouis Adams FROTHINGHAM
(1871-1928)
FROTHINGHAM, Louis Adams,
a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Jamaica Plain, Mass.,
July 13, 1871; attended the public schools and Adams Academy; was
graduated from Harvard University in 1893 and from Harvard Law
School in 1896; admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice
in Boston; second lieutenant, United States Marine Corps, in the
Spanish-American War in 1898; member of the State house of
representatives 1901-1905, and served as speaker in 1904 and 1905;
Lieutenant Governor 1909-1911; unsuccessful candidate for Governor
in 1911; lecturer at Harvard University 1913-1916; moved to North
Easton, Mass., in 1916 and continued the practice of law; delegate
to the Republican National Convention in 1916; major in the United
States Army during the First World War; member of the commission to
visit the soldiers and sailors from Massachusetts in France in
1918; first vice commander of the Massachusetts branch of the
American Legion in 1919; overseer of Harvard University for
eighteen years; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to
the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1921,
until his death on board the yacht Winsome, at North Haven,
Maine, August 23, 1928; interment in Village Cemetery, North
Easton, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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