Louis A. Frothingham

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Louis A. Frothingham

Louis Adams Frothingham (born July 13, 1871 in Jamaica Plain , West Roxbury , Massachusetts , †  August 23, 1928 in North Haven , Maine ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1928 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Louis Frothingham attended the public schools in his home country and the Adams Academy . He then studied at Harvard University until 1893 . After a subsequent law degree at the same university and his admission as a lawyer in 1896, he began to work in this profession in Boston . During the Spanish-American War he was a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps . Politically, he joined the Republican Party . Between 1901 and 1905 he sat as a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts , whose speaker he was from 1904 as the successor to James J. Myerswas. From 1909 to 1911 Frothingham served as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. In 1911 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of his state.

Between 1913 and 1916 Frothingham gave a few lectures at Harvard University. From 1916 he lived in North Easton . In June of that year he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Charles Evans Hughes was nominated as a presidential candidate. During the First World War he was a major in the United States Army . In 1918 he was a member of the commission that organized Massachusetts troop visits to France . In 1919 he became deputy head of the American Legion veterans organization for Massachusetts. He was a board member of Harvard University for 18 years.

In the congressional elections of 1920 Frothingham was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 14th  constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Richard Olney on March 4, 1921 . After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death . He died on August 23, 1928 on board a yacht near North Haven Island.

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SURNAME Frothingham, Louis A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frothingham, Louis Adams (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Jamaica Plain , West Roxbury , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1928
Place of death at North Haven , Maine