T. Jefferson Coolidge

Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (born August 26, 1831 in Boston , Massachusetts , † November 17, 1920 ) was an American economic manager and diplomat who was, among other things, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in France between 1892 and 1893 .

Life

Coolidge was the youngest of six children of Joseph Coolidge and his wife Eleonora "Ellen" Wayles Randolph Coolidge, a granddaughter of US President Thomas Jefferson . After attending private boarding schools in London , Geneva and Dresden , he began studying at Harvard University , which he completed in 1850. Through the mediation of his father-in-law, William Appleton , who was also a member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts , he became the finance director of the cotton and textile company Boott Mills in 1857 . Later, he was finance director of the Lawrence Manufacturing Company , the Amoskeag Mills and president of the railway undertaking Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway . In 1889 he took part in the Pan American Conference .

On May 12, 1892, Coolidge was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France and handed over his letter of accreditation on June 10, 1892, succeeding Whitelaw Reid . He remained in this post until May 4, 1893 and was then replaced by James B. Eustis . In 1896 he became a member of the Massachusetts Taxation Commission and in 1898 a member of the United High Commission of Canada , Newfoundland , the United States and the United Kingdom for the regulation of borders, fishing, killing of fur seals, arming at the lakes and transporting goods in Alaska .

His daughter Eleonora "Nora" Randolph Coolidge Sears and his son Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. emerged from his marriage to Hetty Sullivan Appleton Coolidge in 1852. His granddaughter was the tennis player Eleonora "Eleo" Randolph Sears , who won the US doubles championship in 1911, 1915, 1916 and 1917. After his death he was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge .

publication

• The autobiography of T. Jefferson Coolidge, 1831-1920 , posthumously, Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs of the US State Department
• T. Jefferson Coolidge in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• John N. Ingham: Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1983, p. 190, ISBN 0-3132-3907-X