- Harry B. Coffee
Harry Buffington Coffee (1890-1972) was a
Nebraska democratic politician.Born near
Harrison, Sioux Co., Nebraska on March 16, 1890, a son of Samuel Buffington Coffee and May Elizabeth Tisdale. Harry graduated from theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1913. He sold real estate and insurance inChadron, Nebraska from 1914 to 1939. DuringWorld War I he was a second lieutenant in the Air Service in 1917 and 1918. Organized Coffee Cattle Co., Inc. in 1915 which owned a lot of ranches inSioux County, Nebraska . He also did some farming.He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth congress and reelected to the next three congresses, serving from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1943. He ran for the senate in 1942 when his seat was merged and done away with, but he failed to obtain the nomination.
He became a president of a stockyard company and a terminal railway company from 1943 until 1961. In 1961 he was named
chairman of the board of the company. He died inOmaha, Nebraska on October 3, 1972. He is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Omaha. He was a member of the Methodist Church and aFreemason .References
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