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Preceded by
  
Role
  
U.S. congressman

Nationality
  
United States

Party
  

Political party
  
Democratic

Succeeded by
  
David Worth Clark

Name
  
Thomas Coffin

Battles and wars
  
Thomas C. Coffin Thomas C Coffin Wikipedia

Born
  
October 25, 1887Caldwell, Idaho Territory (
1887-10-25
)

Resting place
  
Mountain View CemeteryPocatello, Idaho

Spouse(s)
  
Aileen Franklin Coffin(1897–1953)(m. 1920–1934, his death)

Children
  
Jeanne Coffin (b. 1922)

Died
  
June 8, 1934, Washington, D.C., United States

Residence
  
Pocatello, Idaho, United States

Thomas Chalkley Coffin (October 25, 1887 – June 8, 1934) was a congressman from Idaho, a Democrat in the U.S. House from 1933 to 1934.

Born in Caldwell, Idaho Territory, Coffin moved with his family to nearby Boise in 1898. He attended Boise High School and then transferred back east to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Coffin then entered Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, and was graduated from the law department of Yale University in 1910. He was admitted to the bar in 1911 and was a deputy county attorney for Ada County in Boise and in 1913 became an assistant attorney general of Idaho. Coffin relocated east across the state to Pocatello in December 1915 and went into private practice. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War I as a Petty officer, second class in the aviation division.

Coffin was elected mayor of Pocatello in 1931 and ran for Congress in the 2nd district in 1932. In the Democratic landslide, he easily defeated the ten-term Republican incumbent, Addison T. Smith.

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Only fifteen months into his first term, Coffin was struck by an automobile on a driveway in the south grounds of the U.S. Capitol on June 4, 1934, and suffered a fractured skull. He died four days later at Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C., and was buried on June 14 in Pocatello.

References

Thomas C. Coffin Wikipedia


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