Edwin Coe | |
Office: | Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin |
Term Start: | March 1896 |
Term End: | August 1898 |
Predecessor: | W. A. Jones |
Successor: | Joseph B. Treat |
Office1: | Chief Clerk of the |
Term Start1: | January 1885 |
Term End1: | January 5, 1891 |
Predecessor1: | Isaac T. Carr |
Successor1: | George W. Porth |
Term Start2: | January 11, 1882 |
Term End2: | January 1, 1883 |
Predecessor2: | John E. Eldred |
Successor2: | Isaac T. Carr |
State3: | Wisconsin |
State Assembly3: | Wisconsin |
District3: | Walworth 3rd |
Term Start3: | January 7, 1878 |
Term End3: | January 5, 1880 |
Predecessor3: | William Greening |
Successor3: | Caleb S. Blanchard |
Party: | Republican |
Birth Date: | 11 June 1840 |
Birth Place: | Ixonia, Wisconsin Territory |
Death Place: | Whitewater, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Restingplace: | Hillside Cemetery, |
Relatives: | Descendants of Robert Coe |
Education: | University of Wisconsin |
Occupation: | Newspaper editor, publisher |
Allegiance: | United States |
Branch: | United States Volunteers Union Army |
Rank: | Corporal, USV |
Serviceyears: | 1861 - 1863 |
Battles: | American Civil War |
Edwin Delos Coe (June 11, 1840May 5, 1909) was an American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican politician. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing northern Walworth County in 1878 and 1879. He subsequently served as chief clerk of the Assembly for four terms and was elected chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin in 1896.
Born in Ixonia, Wisconsin Territory, Coe went to Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and then to University of Wisconsin - Madison. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In 1866, Coe was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar and was the editor of the Whitewater Register. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1878 and 1879 as a Republican. He then served as chief clerk in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1882, 1885, 1887, and 1889. He was head of the United States Pension Agency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for ten years. He was also chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party Central Committee. He died at his home in Whitewater, Wisconsin.[1] [2]