Henry A. Coffeen

Henry Asa Coffeen (* February 14, 1841 in Gallipolis, Ohio; † December 9, 1912 in Sheridan, Wyoming ) was an American politician.

1853 Coffeen moved with his parents to Indiana, and thence to Homer (Illinois ). In Illinois, he attended Abingdon College, where he graduated from the Faculty. He then worked as a teacher and belonged to the teaching staff of the Hiram College in Ohio. 1884 Coffeen moved into Wyoming Territory and settled there in Sheridan, the county seat of Sheridan County, down. In Wyoming, he was a member of the Commission, which drafted the constitution of the new state.

Coffeen in 1892 elected as a Democrat in Congress, where he defeated the Republican incumbent Clarence D. Clark, and represented there, Wyoming on March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1895 U.S. House of Representatives. Its starting to get elected for a further term of the House of Representatives, failed at the polls in 1894. Coffeen died 1912 in Sheridan and was buried in the Sheridan Cemetery.