John M. Coffee

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John M. Coffee

John Main Coffee (born January 23, 1897 in Tacoma , Washington , †  June 2, 1983 there ) was an American politician . Between 1936 and 1947 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Coffee attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1920 at the University of Washington in Seattle . After a subsequent law degree at Yale University and his admission to the bar in 1922, he began working in his new profession in Tacoma. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1923 and 1924, Coffee was on the staff of US Senator Clarence Dill . From 1933 to 1935 he was Secretary to the Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration . This authority was set up by the federal government for the purpose of overcoming the consequences of the global economic crisis . At the same time Coffee worked as an appraiser for the tax authorities of the state of Washington, where he dealt mainly with inheritance tax in Pierce County .

Coffee was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1936 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of his state , where he succeeded the late Member Wesley Lloyd on January 3, 1937 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1947 . There, further New Deal laws of the federal government were first passed. After that, the work of the US House of Representatives was also shaped by the events of World War II .

In the 1946 elections, John Coffee was defeated by Republican Thor Tollefson . In 1950 and 1958, he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. In the years following his retirement from the US House of Representatives, Coffee worked as a lawyer in Tacoma and Seattle. He died on June 2, 1983 in his hometown of Tacoma.

Web links

  • John M. Coffee in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Coffee, John M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coffee, John Main (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Tacoma , Washington
DATE OF DEATH June 2nd 1983
Place of death Tacoma , Washington