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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Harry B. Coffee |
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Chadron, Nebraska , United States |
| Email | None |
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March 16, 1890
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| Died | October 03, 1972
(82 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | COFFEE, Harry Buffington, a Representative from Nebraska; born near Harrison, Sioux County, Nebr., March 16, 1890; attended the public schools at Chadron, Nebr.; University of Nebraska at Lincoln, A.B., 1913; engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Chadron, Nebr., 1914-1939; served as a second lieutenant in the Air Service in 1917 and 1918; organized the Coffee Cattle Co., Inc., in 1915 with extensive ranch holdings in Sioux County, Nebr.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1943); was not a candidate for renomination in 1942, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate; president of a stockyard company and also of a terminal railway company from 1943 until 1961 when he was named chairman of the board; died in Omaha, Nebr., October 3, 1972; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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