Glenn Coffee

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Virgil Glenn Coffee (born 1967) is an American lawyer and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Coffee is currently the first Republican President pro tempore, having previously served as the first and only Co-President Pro Tempore during the previous legislature.

Biography

Coffee was raised in Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where he attended Putnam City Public Schools. After graduating from high school, Coffee moved to Tahlequah, Oklahoma where he attended Northeastern State University (NSU). He graduated from NSU with a Bachelor of Arts then attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law and earned a Juris Doctor.

Coffee was first elected to the Oklahoma Senate in 1998 and was re-elected to his final term in that body without opposition in 2006. In December 2006, Coffee was selected by his party to serve as the first Co-President Pro Tempore of the Senate and 41st President Pro Tempore for a one month term during a unique tied Senate membership. He was formally elected on the Constitutionally mandated organizational day on January 2, 2007.

After the 2008 General Elections gave the Republicans outright control of the chamber on November 4, 2008, the Republican caucus elected Coffee as the President Pro Tempore on November 6, 2008. He will assume the duties of the office on November 18, 2008 and be officially elected in January, 2009 by the body as a whole. Due to term limits placed on him by the Oklahoma Constitution, Coffee will be unable to seek re-election in 2010.

Coffee is also an attorney with the Oklahoma law firm Phillips Murrah, P.C., where he works in Commercial Transactions, Corporate And Partnership Formation and High Technology, E-Commerce and the Internet.

See also

• Oklahoma State Senate
• Oklahoma Republican Party
• Politics of Oklahoma

References

• "Senator Glenn Coffee - District 30 (biography)". Oklahoma State Senate. http://www.oksenate.gov/Senators/biographies/coffee_bio.html. 

External links

• Homepage of the Oklahoma State Senate

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