Stephen Coburn

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Stephen Coburn (born November 11, 1817 in Skowhegan , Massachusetts , † July 4, 1882 ) was an American politician . In 1861 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Stephen Coburn was born in Bloomfield, a hamlet of Skowhegan, in 1817. At that time this place was still part of Massachusetts; In 1820 it fell to the newly created state of Maine. Coburn attended schools in Waterville and China , Maine. He then worked as a teacher on a plantation in Tarboro , North Carolina in 1839 and 1840 . He was then head of Bloomfield Academy between 1840 and 1844 . After a subsequent law degree at Harvard University and his admission as a lawyer in 1845, he began to work in Skowhegan in his new profession.

Coburn was a member of the Maine Education Committee in 1849 and 1850. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party founded in 1854 . Over the years he has participated as a delegate at several regional party conferences. After the resignation of Congressman Israel Washburn in 1860, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Maine . There he took up his new mandate on January 2, 1861. By March 3, 1861, he ended the legislature of his predecessor. Since the regular congressional elections of 1860 had already taken place before the by-election and Coburn had not stood as a candidate, he could only remain in Congress until March 3, 1861 . During these three months, many members of the South resigned because their states had joined the confederation . At that time, Stephen Coburn was also a member of a commission that wanted to prevent the outbreak of civil war at the last minute .

After serving in the House of Representatives, Coburn returned to work as a lawyer. Between 1868 and 1877 he was a postman in Skowhegan. Stephen Coburn drowned in the Kennebec River on July 4, 1882 .

Web links

  • Stephen Coburn in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Coburn, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Skowhegan , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1882
Place of death Skowhegan , Maine