Stephen Coburn

Stephen Coburn ( born November 11, 1817 in Skowhegan, Massachusetts, † July 4, 1882 ) was an American politician. In 1861, he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Coburn was born in 1817 in Bloomfield, a district of Skowhegan. At that time this place was still part of Massachusetts; In 1820 he fell to the newly created State of Maine. Coburn attended schools in Waterville and China, Maine. After that, he was employed in 1839 and 1840 as a teacher on a plantation in Tarboro, North Carolina. He was subsequently 1840-1844 Head of the Bloomfield Academy. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his made ​​in 1845 admitted to the bar he began in Skowhegan to work in his new profession.

In the years 1849 and 1850, Coburn was a member of the Education Committee of Maine. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Over the years, he participated in several regional party conferences as a delegate. Following the resignation of Congressman Israel Washburn in 1860 he was in the fifth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on January 2, 1861 at its new mandate. Until March 3, 1861 he ended the legislative session of his predecessor. Since the regular congressional elections of the year 1860 had already taken place before the election and Coburn had not a candidate, he could only remain until March 3, 1861 Congress. In these three months, many MPs from the South withdrew because their countries had joined the Confederacy. At that time, Stephen Coburn was also a member of a commission that would prevent the last minute the outbreak of the Civil War.

After his time in the House, Coburn again worked as a lawyer. Between 1868 and 1877 he was postmaster in Skowhegan. Stephen Coburn drowned on July 4, 1882 Kennebec River.