{{Short description|American politician}} <!-- This article was automatically created by User:polbot from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000739. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox officeholder | name = Frederick Spaulding Coolidge | image = Coolidge, Hon. F.S.S. LCCN 2016690633 (cropped).tif | state = Massachusetts | district = 11th | term_start = March 4, 1891 | term_end = March 3, 1893 | preceded = Rodney Wallace | succeeded = William F. Draper | order2 = Member of the<br>Board of Selectmen<br>Westminster, Massachusetts<ref name="MassofToday pg_56">{{Citation |last= Toomey|first=Daniel P.| year = 1892 | title = Massachusetts of Today: a Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical | page = 56 | publisher = Columbia Publishing Company | location = Boston, MA }}</ref> | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | order3 = Member of the<br>Massachusetts House of Representatives | term_start3 = 1875 | term_end3 = 1875 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | birth_date = December 7, 1841 | birth_place = Westminster, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|June 8, 1906|December 7, 1841}} | death_place = Fitchburg, Massachusetts, U.S. | resting_place = Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Westminster, Massachusetts | party = Democrat | other_party = | spouse = Ellen Drusilla Allen | relations = | children = 3, including Marcus A. Coolidge | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = Businessman, chair manufacturer | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Frederick Spaulding Coolidge''' (December 7, 1841 – June 8, 1906) was a U.S. representative from Massachusetts and the father of United States senator Marcus Allen Coolidge.

==Biography== Born to Charles and Nancy (Spaulding) Coolidge in Westminster, Massachusetts, he was a descendant on his father's side of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Coolidge attended the common schools. He began his career working at his father's chair factory, however in 1876 his father's factory burned down.<ref name="Fulham Genealogy pg_133">{{Citation |last = Fulham | first = Volney Sewall | year = 1909 | title = The Fulham Genealogy: With Index of Names and Blanks for Records | pages = 132–133 | publisher = Free Press Printing Co. | location = Burlington, VT }}</ref> After the destruction of his father's factory Coolidge became manager of the Boston Chair Manufacturing Co. in Ashburnham, Massachusetts<ref name="Fulham Genealogy pg_133"/> and later of the Leominster Rattan Works.<ref name="Fulham Genealogy pg_133"/> Coolidge was a member of the Board of Selectmen of his native town for three years. He served as member of the Democratic State Central Committee.

Coolidge served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1875.

Coolidge was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893).

While in Congress Coolidge served on the Committee on Pacific Railroads and on the Select Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands in the United States.<ref name="Fulham Genealogy pg_133"/> He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress. He retired from active business pursuits.

His daughter, Cora Helen Coolidge, went on to be president of Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University).<ref>{{cite book |title=Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature |last=Lear |first=Linda |year=1997 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |location=New York |isbn=978-0-547-238234 |page=28 |access-date=August 21, 2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=36euz6DjmwUC&pg=PA28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Pennsylvania College for Women |url=https://archive.org/stream/independen79v80newy#page/n77/mode/1up |newspaper=The Independent |date=Jul 13, 1914 |access-date=August 21, 2012}}</ref>

==Death and burial== Coolidge died in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on June 8, 1906. He was interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Westminster, Massachusetts.

==See also== * 1875 Massachusetts legislature

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==Bibliography== *Buckminster, Lydia N. H.: ''The Hastings Memorial, A Genealogical Account of the Descendants of Thomas Hastings of Watertown, Mass. from 1634 to 1864,'' Boston: Samuel G. Drake Publisher (an undated NEHGS photoduplicate of the 1866 edition). *Fulham, Volney Sewall (1909), ''The Fulham Genealogy: With Index of Names and Blanks for Records'', Burlington, VT: Free Press Printing Co., pp.&nbsp;132–133

==External links== {{CongBio|C000739}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=11 | before=Rodney Wallace | after=William F. Draper | years=March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893}} * [http://www.thomas-hastings.org Descendants of Thomas Hastings website] * [https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Descendants-of-Thomas-Hastings-c1605-1685/73420529952 Descendants of Thomas Hastings on Facebook]

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