John M. Coffee

John Main Coffee (January 23, 1897 - June 2,1983) was a U.S. Representative from Washington.

Born in Tacoma, Washington, Coffee attended the public schools.He was in the University of Washington at Seattle, A.B. and LL.B., 1920 and from the law department of Yale University, J.D., 1921.He was admitted to the bar in 1922 and commenced practice in Tacoma, Washington. Secretary to United States Senator C.C. Dill in 1923 and 1924. Secretary of the advisory board of the National Recovery Administration 1933-1935. Appraiser and examiner of Pierce County for the Washington State Inheritance Tax and Escheat Division 1933-1936. Civil service commissioner for Tacoma, Washington, in 1936.

Coffee was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1947).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress, for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress, and in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress. Practicing attorney in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington.He was a resident of Tacoma, Washington, until his death in June 1983.

His son, John Main Coffee Jr. was a longtime professor of history at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and is editor of The Fare Box, a publication from the American Vecturist Association.

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