Louis A. Frothingham

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41st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
Louis Adams Frothingham
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 14th district
In office March 4, 1921 – August 23, 1928
Preceded by	Richard Olney
Succeeded by	Richard B. Wigglesworth
In office 1909 – 1912
Governor	Ebenezer Sumner Draper (1909-1910) Eugene Foss (1910-1911)
Preceded by	Ebenezer Sumner Draper
Succeeded by	Robert Luce

Born	July 13, 1871 Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Died	August 23, 1928 North Haven, Maine
Political party	Republican

Louis Adams Frothingham was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Jamaica Plain on July 13, 1871. He attended the public schools and Adams Academy. He graduated from Harvard University in 1893 and from Harvard Law School in 1896. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston. He served as second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps in the Spanish-American War.

He was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and served as Speaker. He served as Lieutenant Governor 1909-1911, but was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor 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. Frothingham served as a major in the United States Army during World War I. He was a member of the commission to visit the soldiers and sailors from Massachusetts in France. 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 Republican 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 North Haven, Maine on August 23, 1928. His interment was in Village Cemetery in North Easton.