Clarence Coughlin was a Republican

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 U.S. Representative

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 from Pennsylvania

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Biography

Clarence Dennis Coughlin (uncle of R. Lawrence Coughlin) was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania

Kingston, Pennsylvania

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. He attended Wesleyan University

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 in Middletown, Connecticut

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, and Harvard College

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. He taught in the Wilkes-Barre High School from 1906 to 1910. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1910 and practiced law in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

- Demographics :As of the 2010 census, the county was 90.7% White, 3.4% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 3.3% were of some other race, and 1.5% were two or more races. 6.7% of the population was of Hispanic or Latino ancestry...

, from 1910 to 1920.

He was engaged in manufacturing, banking, and the development of real estate in Wilkes-Barre

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 and Scranton

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. He served as a member of the committee of public safety

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 of the State and county in 1918, and served six years as a member of the commission to revise the penal code of Pennsylvania. He was chairman of the Republican county committee of Luzerne County from 1915 to 1917.

Coughlin was elected as a Republican to the 67th Congress

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, during which he served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922

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. He was appointed judge of the Luzerne County

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

- Demographics :As of the 2010 census, the county was 90.7% White, 3.4% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 3.3% were of some other race, and 1.5% were two or more races. 6.7% of the population was of Hispanic or Latino ancestry...

 Court of Common Pleas

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 in 1925 to fill an unexpired term caused by the death of Judge Woodward. He was elected in November 1927 for a ten-year term and served until 1937.

Death

Coughlin died in Wilkes-Barre, aged 63. He is interred in Mount Greenwood Cemetery in Trucksville

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