Name Amos Coggswell Profession Lawyer, Farmer | Role Politician | |
Residence Aurora Township, Minnesota, United States | ||
Political party RepublicanDemocrat | ||
Amos Coggswell (1825 in New Hampshire – 1892 in Steele County, Minnesota) was a Minnesota politician, a member of both the Republican and Democratic parties, and a former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Coggswell served as a delegate to the Republican State Constitutional Convention in 1857. He was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1858, and became the second house speaker in 1859.
In 1867, he ran unsuccessfully for Minnesota Secretary of State as a Democrat. Coggswell was later elected to the Minnesota Senate, where he served from 1872 to 1875.
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