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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonSamuel Harrison COON
(1903-1980)
COON, Samuel Harrison, a
Representative from Oregon; born in Boise, Ada County, Idaho, April
15, 1903; attended public schools in Cambridge and Boise, Idaho;
graduated from the University of Idaho at Moscow in 1925; worked as
a wool grader, bank clerk, foreman of a sheep ranch, and as office
manager for a mining concern; owned and operated a cattle ranch
near Keating, Baker County, Oreg., 1929-1950; supervisor Keating
Soil Conservation District, 1941-1945; engaged in the real estate
business in 1951 and 1952; served in the senate of the Oregon
legislature in 1951 and 1952; elected as a Republican to the
Eighty-third and Eighty-fourth Congresses (January 3, 1953-January
3, 1957); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1956 to
the Eighty-fifth Congress; served as Deputy Director for the
International Cooperation Administration in Lima, Peru, from
February 26, 1957, to March 20, 1959; resided in Laguna Hills,
Calif., until his death there on May 8, 1980; cremated and ashes
scattered at sea.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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