- Alexander Hamilton Coffroth
Alexander Hamilton Coffroth (
May 18 ,1828 –September 2 ,1906 ) was a Democratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Alexander H. Coffroth was born in
Somerset, Pennsylvania . He attended the public schools and Somerset Academy. He published a Democratic paper in Somerset for five years. He studied law in the law office of Hon.Jeremiah S. Black , was admitted to the bar in February 1851 at Somerset, where he practiced his profession. He was a delegate to several Democratic State conventions, as well as a delegate to the1860 Democratic National Convention s which assembled inCharleston, South Carolina , andBaltimore, Maryland . He served as an assessor of internal revenue in 1867, and was a delegate to the1872 Democratic National Convention .Coffroth was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress. During his term in the Thirty-eighth Congress, he supported the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, along with some other Democrats, such as
Archibald McAllister . He claimed reelection to the Thirty-ninth Congress, was seated on February 19, 1866, and served until July 18, 1866, when he was succeeded byWilliam H. Koontz , who contested the election. He was again elected to the Forty-sixth Congress. He served as chairman of theUnited States House Committee on Invalid Pensions during the Forty-sixth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1880. He resumed the practice of law in Somerset and died inMarkleton, Pennsylvania , in 1906. Interment in Union Cemetery in Somerset.Coffroth was the last surviving pallbearer who had served at the funeral of President
Abraham Lincoln .ources
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