Thomas C. Coffin

Thomas Chalkey Coffin ( born October 25, 1887 in Caldwell, Idaho, † June 8, 1934 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1934 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Idaho in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1898, Thomas Coffin came with his parents to Boise. There he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1906 at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Coffin completed his studies in 1910 with a law degree from Yale University. After his 1911 was admitted as a lawyer in Boise, he began to work in his new profession. Between 1913 and 1915 he was Deputy Attorney General of Idaho.

In 1917, Thomas Coffin moved to Pocatello, where he also worked as a lawyer. During World War II he was in the Air Corps of the U.S. Navy. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1931 to 1933 he was mayor of Pocatello. In the congressional elections of 1932 he was elected for the second electoral district of Idaho in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced 1933 Addison T. Smith of the Republican Party on March 4. The election victory of 1932 was in the national trend: The Democrats won many seats at all political levels; The highlight was the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president. Thomas Coffin died on 8 June 1934 as a congressman on the consequences of a traffic accident, he had suffered four days earlier in Washington.