Alexander H. Coffroth was born in Somerset , Pennsylvania . He attended the public schools and Somerset Academy . He published a Democratic paper in Somerset for five years . He studied law in the law office of Hon. Jeremiah S. Black , and was admitted to the bar in February 1851 at Somerset , where he practiced his profession . He was a delegate to several Democratic State conventions , as well as a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Conventions which assembled in Charleston , South Carolina , and Baltimore , Maryland . He served as an assessor of internal revenue in 1867 , and was a delegate to the 1872 Democratic National Convention
1872 Democratic National Convention
1872 Democratic National Convention
Alexander Hamilton Coffroth