Harry B. Coffee

Harry Buffington Coffee ( born March 16, 1890, Harrison, Sioux County, Nebraska; † October 3, 1972 in Omaha, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1943 he represented the last delegate the fifth electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Coffee attended the public schools in Chadron and thereafter until 1913, the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Between 1914 and 1939 he worked in Chadron in real estate and insurance business. During World War II he was a lieutenant in the flying squadron of the U.S. Army. In 1915 he founded the company Coffey Cattle Co. This company, which dealt with the cattle and the cattle trade, he ran alongside his other stores.

Politically Coffee became a member of the Democratic Party. In 1934 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Terry Carpenter on 3 January 1935. After he was confirmed in the next three elections in his office, he could implement his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1943. A census of the fifth electoral district in Nebraska in 1942 was abolished. For this reason, Coffee desired in the elections of 1942, after being nominated by his party for the U.S. Senate. But he could not prevail in the primaries.

After the end of his political career Harry Coffee was the head of a stockyard and a freight railway company. In 1961 he became its CEO.