Frank M. Coffin

Frank Morey Coffin ( born July 11, 1919 in Lewiston, Maine; † 7, 2009 in Portland, Maine) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1957 and 1961 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Coffin attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1940, the Bates College. Until 1943 he studied at the Business School of Harvard University. Between 1943 and 1946 he served during World War II in the U.S. Navy. He was employed in the Pacific. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession in Lewiston. From 1947 to 1949 he was employed by the United States District Court for the District of Maine. Politically Coffin was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1954 and 1956 he was its chairman in Maine.

1956 Coffin was in the second electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on January 3, 1957, the succession of Republican Charles P. Nelson. After a re-election in 1958 he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1961 two legislative sessions. In 1960, he opted not to run again. This year, Coffin ran unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Maine, where he was defeated by Republican candidate John H. Reed. Until October 1961 he was Managing Director of the Fund for Overseas Development ( Development Loan Fund ). Thereafter he served until 1964 as deputy head of United States Agency for International Development. Between 1964 and 1965 he represented the American interests at an OECD conference in Paris.

In 1965, Coffin was appointed a judge of the Federal Court of Appeals for the first circuit court. This office he held as a successor of John Patrick Hartigan until 1989. Between 1972 and 1983 he was Chief Judge of this court. From 1984 to 1990 he was also Chairman of the Judicial Conference Committee. After that, Frank Coffin withdrew into retirement. He died on 7 December 2009 at the age of 90 years.

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