Louis Adams Frothingham (July 13, 1871 – August 23, 1928) was a

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Early life

Frothingham was born in

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on July 13, 1871. He attended the public schools and

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. He graduated from

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in 1893 (where he was a member of the Porcellian) and from Harvard Law School in 1896. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in

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. He served as second lieutenant in the

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in the

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Political career

Frothingham was elected a member of the

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, and served as Speaker from 1904 to 1905. He was the Republican nominee in the 1905 Boston mayoral election after narrowly defeating former Judge Henry S. Dewey. He lost the general election to Democrat

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48% to 39%. He served as the 41st Lieutenant Governor 1909–1911, but was an unsuccessful candidate for

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in 1911. He was lecturer at Harvard. He then moved to North Easton and continued the practice of law. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916. On May 9, 1916, Frothingham married Mary Shreve Ames in North Easton, Massachusetts. Mary Shreve Ames was a member of the wealthy and prominent Ames family of Easton, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of Frederick Lothrop Ames the great niece of Congressman Oakes Ames, and the first cousin, once removed of Oliver Ames who was Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Massachusetts. Frothingham served as a major in the

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during

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. He was a member of the commission to visit the soldiers and sailors from Massachusetts in

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. He served as first vice commander of the Massachusetts branch of the American Legion in 1919. He was overseer of Harvard University for eighteen years. Frothingham was elected as a

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to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1921, until his death on board the yacht Winsome in

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on August 23, 1928. His interment was in Village Cemetery in North Easton.

References

Bibliography

*''Who's Who in State Politics, 1911'' Practical Politics (1911) pp. 6–7. * Sherburne, John H. ''Battery A: Field Artillery M. V. M., 1895–1905'', (1908) pp. 14, 18, 184–185. * Bridgman, Arthur Milnor. ''A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators'' (1901) p. 179.

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