Sam Coppersmith

Sam Coppersmith, 1993

Samuel G. "Sam" Coppersmith (born May 22, 1955 in Johnstown , Cambria County , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician . Between 1993 and 1995 he represented the first constituency of the state of Arizona in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Sam Coppersmith studied at Harvard University until 1976 . From 1977 to 1979 he worked for the United States Department of State at the American Embassy in Port of Spain ( Trinidad and Tobago ). He then studied law at Yale University until 1982 . After being admitted to the bar in the same year, he was assistant to Judge William C. Canby at the Federal Court of Appeals in the 9th District Court until 1983 .

Then in 1984 Coppersmith worked for Terry Goddard , the mayor of Phoenix . From 1989 to 1982 he was a member and chairman of a municipal committee in Phoenix ( Phoenix Board of Adjustment ). At the same time, Coppersmith was a lawyer specializing in commercial and real estate law. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1992 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives as his party's candidate for the first congressional constituency of Arizona. There he took over from John Jacob Rhodes on January 3, 1993 . Two years later he decided not to run again. His time in Congress ended on January 3, 1995.

A candidacy for the US Senate was unsuccessful in 1994. In the following years Coppersmith was temporarily chairman of the Democratic Party in Arizona. Today he works as a lawyer specializing in real estate law. He is a managing partner of the law firm Coppersmith Gordon Schermer & Brockelman PLC

Web link

• Sam Coppersmith in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)