Peleg Coffin Jr.

{{Short description|American financier and politician (1756–1805)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Peleg Coffin Jr. | image = | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district|3rd]] | term_start = March 4, 1793 | term_end = March 3, 1795 | alongside = [[Shearjashub Bourne]] ([[General ticket]]) | preceded = [[Elbridge Gerry]] | succeeded = [[Samuel Lyman]] | title2 = [[Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts]] | term_start2 = 1797 | term_end2 = 1801 | governor2 = [[Increase Sumner]] [[Moses Gill]] [[Governor's Council]] [[Caleb Strong]] | predecessor2 = Thomas Davis | successor2 = [[Jonathan Jackson (Continental Congress)|Jonathan Jackson]] | title3 = Member of the [[Massachusetts Senate]] Nantucket District | term3 = 1795-1796 <ref name=ProNHS7-26-1911pg30/> | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | office4 = Member of the [[Massachusetts Senate]] Nantucket District | term_start4 = 1790<ref name=ProNHS7-26-1911pg30/> | term_end4 = 1792<ref name=ProNHS7-26-1911pg30/> | predecessor4 = Isaac Coffin<ref name=ProNHS7-26-1911pg30/> | successor4 = | office5 = Member of the [[Massachusetts Senate]] Nantucket District | term_start5 = 1785<ref name=ProNHS7-26-1911pg30/> | term_end5 = 1786<ref name=ProNHS7-26-1911pg30/> | predecessor5 = | successor5 = | office6 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] Nantucket District | term_start6 = 1783 <ref name=ProNHS7-26-1911pg30/> | term_end6 = 1784 <ref name=ProNHS7-26-1911pg30/> | predecessor6 = | successor6 = | title7 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]]<ref name=ProNHS7-26-1911pg30/> | term7 = 1789 | predecessor7 = | successor7 = | birth_date = {{birth date|1756|11|3}} | birth_place = [[Nantucket]], [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], [[British America]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1805|3|6|1756|11|3}} | death_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S. | resting_place = [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] | party = | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Peleg Coffin Jr.''' (November 3, 1756 – March 6, 1805) was an American financier, insurer, and politician from [[Nantucket]] and [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].

==Early life== Coffin was born in [[Nantucket]] in the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]] to 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 him to found and head the New England Marine Insurance Company.

==Public service== Coffin served in the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] in 1783–1784, and in 1789, and in the [[Massachusetts Senate]] from 1785 to 1787, 1789 to 1792, and 1795 to 1796.<ref name=ProNHS7-26-1911pg30>{{Citation |last = Starbuck | first =Alexander | title =''Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association,'' SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING, July Twenty-sixth, Nineteen Hundred Eleven| page = 30 | publisher = Nantucket Historical Association | location = [[Nantucket, Massachusetts]] | date = July 26, 1911}}</ref> 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, representing the 3rd district; he previously was an unsuccessful candidate for the [[Massachusetts's 6th congressional district|6th district]] in 1791.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A New Nation Votes |url=https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/v692t745d |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=elections.lib.tufts.edu}}</ref> Coffin was the [[Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts]] from 1797 to 1801.

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{CongBio|C000591}} * {{citation |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/CP0027 |title=Coffin, Peleg, Jr., 1756-1805 |work=A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825 |publisher= [[American Antiquarian Society]] |year=2007 |via=[[Tufts University]] }}

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