Charles Edward Coffin

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Charles Edward Coffin (July 18, 1841 – May 24, 1912) was an American politician.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Coffin attended the Boston grammar and high schools. In 1863, Coffin moved to Muirkirk, Maryland where he took charge of the local ironworks. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1884 to 1886, and served in the Maryland State Senate from 1890 to 1894. He was delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892, and was elected from the fifth district of Maryland as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Barnes Compton. He was reelected on the same day to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from November 6, 1894, to March 3, 1897.

Coffin engaged in the manufacture of charcoal pig iron, and subsequently became the owner of the Muirkirk blast furnaces. He died in Muirkirk, and is interred in St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church Cemetery in Beltsville, Maryland.