Louis A. Coolidge

Louis Arthur Coolidge (October 8, 1861 – May 31, 1925) was an American journalist and Treasury official.

Early life Coolidge was born on October 8, 1861, in Natick, Massachusetts. He was a son of William Leander Coolidge and Sarah Isabella ( Washburn) Coolidge.

Coolidge graduated from Harvard College. and was president of the Gridiron Club.

In 1908, he succeeded John H. Edwards as Assistant Secretary of Treasury, serving under Treasury Secretaries George B. Cortelyou and Franklin MacVeagh during the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

In April 1924, while he was Treasurer of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, he announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator. His run was unsuccessful and by March 1925, he resigned from the United Shoe Corporation, months before his death on May 31, 1925. John Washburn Coolidge (1903–1990), senior vice president of international divisions of United Shoe Machinery, who in 1930 married landscape architect Helen Seymour (1907-1998).

Coolidge died on May 31, 1925, in Milton, Massachusetts. After a funeral at the Old South Church in Boston, he was buried at Dell Park Cemetery in Natick.