Party Liberal Party of Canada Name Thomas Coffin Succeeded by Thomas Robertson | Role Canadian Politician Resigned 1878 Died July 13, 1890 | |
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Preceded by District was created by British North America Act, 1867 Other political
affiliations Liberal-Conservative (1869-1873)
Anti-Confederate (1867-1869) Cabinet Receiver General (1873–1878) | ||
Political party Liberal (1873-1878) | ||
Thomas Coffin, (1817 – July 13, 1890) was a Canadian businessman and politician.
He was born in Barrington, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia in 1817. He owned a general store and with his brother and other partners operated a sawmill and shipbuilding yard on the Clyde River from 1854 until late in the 1870s. In 1855, he was named a justice of the peace and he served as school commissioner in Shelburne County and the Barrington district. He represented Shelburne County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly as a Reformer from 1851 to 1855 and as a Liberal from 1859 until Confederation. In 1867, he was elected to the 1st Canadian Parliament representing the riding of Shelburne as a Liberal-Conservative supporter of Sir John A. Macdonald. He was re-elected in 1872 and crossed the floor the next year to join the Liberal Party of Canada. He was re-elected 1874 and defeated in 1878. From 1873 to 1878, he was the Receiver General. He died in Barrington in 1890.