- Frank M. Coffin
Frank Morey Coffin was born in
Lewiston, Maine onJuly 11 ,1919 . He was educated in Lewiston public schools and graduated fromBates College in 1940. Coffin graduated fromHarvard Business School in 1943, andHarvard Law School in 1947.Coffin served in the Pacific Theater with the
United States Navy as an ensign and later as alieutenant from 1943-1946. He was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law inLewiston, Maine and was later a law clerk forFederal judge , district ofMaine from 1947 to 1949.Coffin served as chairman of the Maine Democratic State committee from 1954-1956 and was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses (
January 3 1957 -January 3 1961 ). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1960, but was unsuccessful for election asGovernor ofMaine .Coffin was managing director of Development Loan Fund until October 1961 when he became deputy administrator of the
Agency for International Development and served until 1964. He was appointed to serve as United States Representative to Development Assistance Committee of theOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development inParis, France from 1964-1965.Coffin was appointed to the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit onOctober 2 ,1965 and served asChief Judge of that court from 1972-1983. He assumedsenior status in 1989 and officially entered retirement in the Fall of 2006.Coffin was the chairman of the U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on the Judicial Branch from 1984-1990. He is a resident of
South Portland, Maine .Coffin is the author of four books: "Witness for AID" (Houghton Mifflin 1964); "The Ways of a Judge: Views from the Federal Appellate Bench" (Houghton Mifflin 1980); "A Lexicon of Oral Advocacy" (National Institute of Trial Advocacy 1985); "On Appeal: Courts, Lawyering and Judging" (W.W. Norton 1994).
Coffin is an exemplary sculptor, painter and water-colorer. His home is a veritable museum of his own work, which focuses largely on the animal world.
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