Glenn Coffee

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name = Glenn Coffee
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birth_date = 1967
residence = Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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office = Oklahoma State Senator
term_start = 1998
term_end = Present
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party = Republican
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constituency = 30th Senate District
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spouse = Lisa
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Virgil Glenn Coffee (born 1967) is an American lawyer and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Coffee is currently the first Co-President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and will be the 41st President Pro Tempore and the first Republican to hold that office from July 1, 2007 through July 31, 2007.

Biography

Coffee was raised in Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where he attended Putnam City Public Schools. After graduating from high school, Coffee moved to Tahlequah, Oklahoma where he attended Northeastern State University (NSU). He graduated from NSU with a Bachelor of Arts then attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law and earned a Juris Doctor.

Coffee was first elected to the Oklahoma Senate in 1998 and was re-elected to his final term in that body without opposition in 2006. In December 2006, Coffee was selected by his party to serve as the first Co-President Pro Tempore of the Senate and 41st President Pro Tempore. He was formally elected on the Constitutionally mandated organizational day on January 2, 2007. Due to term limits placed on him by the Oklahoma Constitution, Coffee will be unable to seek re-election in 2010.

Coffee is also an attorney with the Oklahoma law firm Phillips, McFall, McCaffrey, McVay, & Murrah, P.C., where he works in Commercial Transactions, Corporate And Partnership Formation and High Technology, E-Commerce and the Internet.

ee also

* State Senator Mike Morgan (the Democratic President Pro Tempore)
* Oklahoma State Senate
* Oklahoma Republican Party
* Politics of Oklahoma

References

*cite web|url=http://www.oksenate.gov/Senators/biographies/coffee_bio.html
title=Senator Glenn Coffee - District 30 (biography)
publisher=Oklahoma State Senate

External links

* [http://www.oksenate.gov/ Homepage of the Oklahoma State Senate]