Harry B. Coffee

(1890-1972) born near Harrison, Sioux County, lived in Chadron and Omaha. Politician, business executive, served as U.S. Congressman from 1935 to 1943, becoming a major spokesman for the livestock industry and arguing that the United States should strengthen its defenses to the point of discouraging all prospective aggressors; was president of the Union Stock Yards Company in Omaha when in 1955 it became the world's largest livestock market and remained so for about 18 years, at its busiest handling six million head of livestock annually. Consult Nebraska on the March, November 1956, pp. 2-3 New York Times obituary, October 5, 1972, p. 50 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 57 (1977) 334-335 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, April 4, 1999, p. A-18.

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