Amos Coggswell
Deceased Person
1825 – 1892
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Who was Amos Coggswell?
Amos Coggswell was a Minnesota politician, a member of both the Republican and Democratic parties, and a former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Coggswell served as a delegate to the Republican State Constitutional Convention in 1857. He was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1858, and became the second house speaker in 1859.
In 1867, he ran unsuccessfully for Minnesota Secretary of State as a Democrat. Coggswell was later elected to the Minnesota Senate, where he served from 1872 to 1875.
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- Born
- 1825
New Hampshire - Lived in
- Aurora Township
- Died
- 1892
Steele County
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on July 23, 2013
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