title: Richard B. Coolidge
text: # Richard B. Coolidge
  
  Richard Bradford Coolidge (September 14, 1879 – January 18, 1957) was a Massachusetts politician.
  
  ## Early life and family
  
  Coolidge was born in the Deering Center area of Portland, Maine. He was brother of Massachuestts politician and Lieutenant Governor Arthur W. Coolidge. He was the fourth cousin of President Calvin Coolidge.
  
  ## Education
  
  Coolidge graduated from Tufts College in 1902 and served as a trustee of the school from 1924 to 1944 and from 1953 to 1957. He attended Harvard Law School.
  
  ## Career as an attorney
  
  Coolidge practiced in the law firm "French and Curtiss."
  
  ## Political service
  
  From 1920 to 1922, Coolidge represented Medford and Winchester in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served as the clerk of the judiciary committee. Coolidge served as the mayor of Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, from 1923 to 1926. He later served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Massachusetts in 1928.
  
  ## Death
  
  Coolidge died in Concord, Massachusetts in 1957.
  
  