John Main Coffee (January 23, 1897 - June 2, 1983) is the US Representative from Washington.
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Education
John Coffee was born in Tacoma, Washington and attended public school. He then attended the University of Washington in Seattle, earning his A.B. and LL.B., 1920 and graduated from the law department of Yale Law School, J.D., in 1921.
She was accepted in the bar in 1922 and started practicing as a lawyer in Tacoma, Washington.
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Public services
in 1922 he was appointed Secretary of the United States Senator C.C. Dill until 1924. He later became Secretary of the National Recovery Administration Advisory Council, 1933-1935.
Coffee also served as an Appraisal and Inspector of Pierce County, Washington for State Heritage Tax and Escheat Division from 1933-1936 as well as Civil Service Commissioner for Tacoma, Washington, in 1936.
Selection
Coffee was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1936 as a Democrat and served in the Seventy Eight and to four successful Congresses (January 3, 1937 - January 3, 1947).
On August 13, 1937, Rep. Coffee introduced a bill to create a permanent Federal Bureau of Permanent Art with six departments: theater, dance, music, literature, graphic and plastic arts, as well as architecture and decoration. A similar bill was introduced in the Senate by Florida Senator Claude Pepper. Opera singer Lawrence Tibbett leads a citizen committee promoting the bill, supported by Robert Montgomery, Theodore Dreiser, Lillian Gish, Martha Graham, Kent Rockwell, Hendrik Willem van Loon, and Sherwood Anderson, among others. Frank Lloyd Wright also supported the bill. The bill was opposed by sculptor Gutzon Borglum and composer Walter Damrosch. The New York Fine Arts Federation called the bill an attempt to unite artists, warning that it would undermine their creative spirit, and the advent of World War II caused its abandonment.
In 1946 it was revealed during a Garsson/May investigation that Coffee had received a $ 2500 check from a Tacoma contractor in 1941 and failed to include it as a campaign donation. Coffee promises not to receive such gifts in the future.
Coffee is a candidate who failed to be re-elected in 1946 to the Eighteen Congress when he was defeated by Republican Thor Tollefson. Coffee will also lose the race in 1950 for the Eighty Twenty Congress and in 1958 for the Eighty Six Congress.
Death
Coffee later became a practicing lawyer in Tacoma, Washington, until his death in June 1983.
John Main Coffee Jr.
Coffee son, John Main Coffee Jr. (died May 8, 2012), was a Unitarian minister and a long history professor at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and co-authored the Century of Eloquence: the history of Emerson College, 1880-1980 . He is also editor of The Fare Box, a publication of the American Vecturist Association.
References
- United States Congress. "John M. Coffee (id: C000584)". Directory of Biographies of the United States Congress .
External links
- John Coffee Papers 1940-1952
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographic Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.
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