John Gardner Coolidge

John Gardner Coolidge (July 4, 1863 – February 28, 1936) was an American collector, diplomat, author, and nephew of Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Coolidge was born and died in Boston, and served as U.S. Minister to Nicaragua in 1908. He was a Republican. His summer home, The Stevens-Coolidge Place, is now a nonprofit museum.

From 1902 to 1906 he was a member of the Peking legation (From 1864 to 1928 Beijing was the capital of China).^[1]

Works

Coolidge, John Gardner (1924). Random Letters From Many Countries. Boston: Marshall Jones. OCLC 565826.
Coolidge, John Gardner (1931). A war diary in Paris, 1914-1917. Cambridge: Priv. Print. at the Riverside Press. OCLC 279442.

References

↑ John King Fairbank, Martha Henderson Coolidge, Richard J. Smith, H. B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China, p. 277

External links

John Gardner Coolidge at The Political Graveyard

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by William L. Merry	United States Minister to Nicaragua August 24, 1908–November 21, 1908	Succeeded by John H. Gregory, Jr.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 6649475

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