Thomas C. Coffin

Thomas C. Coffin (1935)

Thomas Chalkey Coffin (born October 25, 1887 in Caldwell , Idaho , † June 8, 1934 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1934 he represented the second constituency of the state of Idaho in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1898 Thomas Coffin came to Boise with his parents . There he attended public schools. He then studied until 1906 at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire . Coffin graduated from Yale University in 1910 with a law degree . After his admission to the bar in 1911, he began working in his new profession in Boise. Between 1913 and 1915 he was Assistant Attorney General of Idaho.

In 1917 Thomas Coffin moved to Pocatello , where he also worked as a lawyer. During the First World War he was in the Air Corps of the US Navy . Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1931 to 1933 he was mayor of Pocatello. In the congressional election of 1932 he was elected to the US House of Representatives for the second constituency of Idaho, where he replaced Addison T. Smith from the Republican Party on March 4, 1933 . The election victory of 1932 was part of the national trend: the Democrats won many seats at all political levels; The highlight was the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President. Thomas Coffin died as a congressman on June 8, 1934, from the consequences of a traffic accident that he had suffered four days earlier in Washington.

Web links

• Thomas C. Coffin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas C. Coffin in the database of Find a Grave (English)