Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History

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Coolidge, Arthur W., 1882-1952

 

Arthur W. Coolidge (1882-1952), A1903, served as Lt. Governor of Massachusetts from 1947 to 1949.A fourth cousin of President Calvin Coolidge, Arthur Coolidge was one of more than twenty Coolidge family members to attend Tufts or receive honorary degrees from the institution, beginning in 1859. The Coolidge Room in Ballou Hall is named for Coolidge and his son, Robert Tilton Coolidge, A1936.

A descendent ofGovernor Bradford, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles Bulfinch (designer of the Massachusetts State House), Coolidge was born in Portland, Maine. He graduated from Tufts in 1903 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Three years later he graduated from Harvard Law School and immediately began practicing. He served several terms as a state representative in Massachusetts and in 1940 was elected to the state senate. In 1945, he was named president of the senate. The following year he was elected lieutenant governor in a Republican sweep of political offices. Coolidge held the position until 1948.In 1950, he ran unsuccessfully for the governor's office. Coolidge was also a businessman, serving for ten years as president of Clapp and Tilton, a Boston wholesale milliner company. He was a director of Reading Co-operative Bank, a trustee and member of the investment board of the Boston Penny Savings Bank, and president of the Washington Hospital of Boston. He was a member of various Masonic and fraternal groups and was elected Grand Master of the Masons of Massachusetts in 1944.Coolidge died at his home in Boston on January 23, 1952.

Coolidge was recipient of an honorary Masters of Arts from Tufts in 1945.

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Dame, Lorin Low, 1838-1903
Dana, Charles A., 1881-1975
Dana Laboratory, 1963
Daniel Ounjian Prize in Economics,
Davies, Caroline Stodder, 1864-1939
Davies House, 1894
De Florez Prize in Human Engineering, 1964
de Pacheco, Kaye MacKinnon, ca. 1910-ca. 1985
Dean Hall, 1887-1963
Dean, Oliver, 1783-1871
Dearborn, Heman Allen, 1831-1897
Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, 1893
Department of Anesthesia, 1970
Department of Art and Art History, 1930
Department of Biochemistry, 1893
Department of Chemistry, 1882
Department of Community Health, 1930
Department of Dermatology, 1897
The Department of Economics, 1946
Department of Medicine, 1893
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Department of Neurology, 1893
Department of Neuroscience, 1983
Department of Neurosurgery, 1951
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1893
Department of Ophthamology, 1893
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 1906
Department of Otolaryngology, 1895
Department of Pathology, 1893
Department of Pediatrics, 1930
Department of Pharmacology, 1915
Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1854
Department of Physiology, 1893
Department of Psychiatry, 1928
Department of Radiation Oncology, 1968
Department of Radiology, 1915
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1955
Department of Surgery, 1893
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, 1973
Department of Urology, 1910
Dental Health Sciences Building, 1969
Dewick, Cora Alma (Polk), 1875-1977
Dewick/MacPhie Dining Hall, 1959
Dickson Professorship of English and American History, 1913
Dirlam, Arland A., 1905-1979
Dog Cart, 1900
Dolbear, Amos Emerson, 1837-1910
Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship, 1946
Dr. Benjamin Andrews Professorship of Surgery, 1987
Dr. Philip E. A. Sheridan Prize, 1977
The Drug Bust, 1970
Dudley, Henry Watson, 1831-1906
Dugger, Edward Jr., 1919-75
Durkee, Frank W., 1861-1939
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