Alexander Hamilton Coffroth

Alexander Hamilton Coffroth ( born May 18, 1828 in Somerset, Pennsylvania, † September 2, 1906 in Markleton, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1866, and again from 1879 to 1881, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alexander Coffroth attended the common schools and Somerset Academy. Then he gave in Somerset five years out a newspaper. After studying law and his 1851 was admitted as a lawyer, he started in Somerset working in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. He participated in several regional party conferences and in 1860 to two Democratic National Convention in Charleston and Baltimore. He was also in July 1872 again a delegate to the national convention in Baltimore. In 1867 he worked as an Assessor of Internal Revenue for the financial management.

In the congressional elections of 1862 Coffroth was in the 16th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Bailey on March 4, 1863. In 1865 he was re-elected. His Republican opponent William Henry Koontz but put against the outcome of the election opposition one. When this was granted, Coffroth had to cede his position to Koontz on 18 July 1866. In his time as a congressman, the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the 13th Amendment, through which slavery was abolished fell. The Trauerfeirlichkeiten for the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he was one of the pallbearers.

In the congressional elections of 1878 Coffroth was selected in the 17th district of his state as the successor to Jacob Miller Campbell again in Congress, where he completed a further term of between 4 March 1879 to 3 March 1881. During this time he was chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions. In 1880 he abandoned a bid again. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Alexander Coffroth again practiced as a lawyer. He died on September 2, 1906 - last pallbearer of the Lincoln Memorial - in Markleton and was buried in Somerset.