Sam Coon

Samuel Harrison "Sam" Coon ( born April 15, 1903 in Boise, Idaho; † May 8, 1980 in Laguna Hills, California ) was an American politician. Between 1953 and 1957 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Sam Coon attended the common schools and then studied until 1925 at the University of Idaho in Moscow. After that, he worked in various professions. Among other things, he was a bank clerk, foreman of a sheep and a clerk in a mining company. Between 1929 and 1950 he ran in Baker County, Oregon a ranch where he raised cattle. In this area he was from 1941 to 1945 and director of the Soil Protection Commission ( Soil Conservation ). Between 1951 and 1952, Coon engaged in the real estate market.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. From 1951 to 1953 he was a member of the Senate of Oregon. In the congressional elections of 1952, Samuel Coon was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Lowell Stockman on January 3, 1953. After a re-election in 1954, Stockman was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1957 two legislative sessions. In the 1956 elections, he lost narrowly to Al Ullman of the Democratic Party.

Between 1957 and 1959 was Sam Coon on the board of the Association for International Cooperation ( International Cooperation Administration) in Lima (Peru ). Then he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Laguna Hills, Calif., where he died in 1980. Samuel Coon was married to Opal Kerfort since 1937.