Owen Vincent Coffin [SEP] position held
Owen Vincent Coffin
Owen Vincent Coffin (June 20, 1836 – January 13, 1921) was an American politician and the 56th Governor of Connecticut from 1895 to 1897.
Biography.
Coffin was born in Mansfield, New York. He studied at Cortland Academy and the Charlottesville Seminary. At seventeen he went to New York to be a salesman for a mercantile house, and two years later, in 1855, he became the New York representative of a prominent Connecticut manufacturing firm.
In 1858, he married Ellen
Merwin was the Republican candidate for governor in the election of 1892 as well, and aspired to become the candidate in 1894 too. However, in 1892, the gubernatorial election was won by Democrat Luzon Buritt Morris, and in 1894, Owen Vincent Coffin was the Republican candidate and won the election.
Personal life.
Merwin died at his residence in New Haven, Connecticut on March 5, 1907, after an illness of three years.