Alexander J. Coffin
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Alexander J. Coffin (December 16, 1794 – April 23, 1868 Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York) was an American politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Eliab Coffin (c. 1756–1841) and Mary (Jenkins) Coffin (b. 1761). On April 8, 1819, he married Lydia Stratton (1798–1832), and they had three children.
He was a presidential elector in 1824.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (8th D.) in 1848 and 1849.
He was buried at the Friends Ground in Poughkeepsie.
Sources
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA136 The New York Civil List] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 136, 139 and 326; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- [http://www.nantuckethistoricalassociation.net/bgr/BGR-o/p499.htm#i14978 Coffin genealogy] at Nantucket Historical Association
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Category:New York (state) state senators
Category:New York (state) Whigs
Category:Politicians from Poughkeepsie, New York
Category:1824 United States presidential electors
Category:19th-century members of the New York State Legislature