Harry B. Coffee

Harry Buffington Coffee (born March 16, 1890 in Harrison , Sioux County , Nebraska , † October 3, 1972 in Omaha , Nebraska) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1943 he represented the last deputy to the fifth constituency of the State of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Harry Coffee attended the public schools in Chadron and then until 1913 the University of Nebraska at Lincoln . Between 1914 and 1939 he worked in Chadron in the real estate and insurance business. During the First World War he was a first lieutenant in the US Army Air Force . In 1915 he founded the company Coffey Cattle Co. This company, which dealt with the cattle breeding and the livestock trade, he ran alongside his other businesses.

Politically, Coffee became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1934 he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he replaced Terry Carpenter on January 3, 1935 . After he was confirmed in office in the following three elections, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1943. According to a census, the fifth constituency in Nebraska was abolished in 1942. For this reason, Coffee sought his party's nomination for the US Senate in the 1942 election . He could not prevail in the primary elections.

After the end of his political career, Harry Coffee was the head of a cattle yard and a freight railroad company. In 1961 he became its chairman.

Web links

• Harry B. Coffee in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Harry B. Coffee in the database of Find a Grave (English)