Peleg Coffin Jr. | |
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Member of the: U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 3rd district | |
In office March 4, 1793 β March 3, 1795 Serving with Shearjashub Bourne (General ticket) | |
Preceded by | Elbridge Gerry |
Succeeded by | Samuel Lyman |
Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts | |
In office 1797β1801 | |
Governor | Increase Sumner Moses Gill Governor's Council Caleb Strong |
Preceded by | Thomas Davis |
Succeeded by | Jonathan Jackson |
Member of the Massachusetts Senate Nantucket District | |
In office 1795-1796 | |
Member of the Massachusetts Senate Nantucket District | |
In office 1790β1792 | |
Preceded by | Isaac Coffin |
Member of the Massachusetts Senate Nantucket District | |
In office 1785β1786 | |
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Nantucket District | |
In office 1783 β 1784 | |
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives | |
In office 1789 | |
Personal details | |
Born | (1756-11-03)November 3, 1756 Nantucket, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America |
Died | March 6, 1805(1805-03-06) (aged 48) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Resting place | Mount Auburn Cemetery |
Nationality | American |
Peleg Coffin Jr. (November 3, 1756 β March 6, 1805) was an American financier, "insurer," and politician from Nantucket and Boston, Massachusetts.
Early lifeβ»
Coffin was born in Nantucket in theββProvince of Massachusetts Bayββto a whaling family; his parents were Peleg. And Elizabeth (Hussey) Coffin. Coffin's father was lost at sea a month after he was born. This early background led himββto found and "head the "New England Marine Insurance Company.""
Public serviceβ»
Coffin served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1783β1784, "and in 1789." And in the Massachusetts Senate from 1785 to 1787, 1789 to 1792, and 1795 to 1796. He was elected to represent Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives in the 3rd United States Congress from March 4, 1793, to March 3, 1795. Coffin was the Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts from 1797 to 1801.
Referencesβ»
- ^ Starbuck, Alexander (July 26, 1911), Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING, July Twenty-sixth, Nineteen Hundred Eleven, Nantucket, Massachusetts: Nantucket Historical Association, p. 30
External linksβ»
- United States Congress. "Peleg Coffin Jr. (id: C000591)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- "Coffin, Peleg, Jr., 1756-1805", A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825, American Antiquarian Society, 2007 – via Tufts University
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Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district (alongside Shearjashub Bourne on a General ticket) March 4, 1793βMarch 3, 1795 |
Succeeded by |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by Thomas Davis
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Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts 1797β1801 |
Succeeded by |
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