Name: John B. Coghill
City: Nenana
District: 19
Occupation: Merchant, Legislator, Lieutenant Governor
Born: September 24, 1925 - Fairbanks
Alaska Resident: 1925-Present
Convention Posts:
- Chair, Committee on Administration
- Member, Committee on Suffrage, Elections and Apportionment
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Quote from the Constitutional Convention:
"I believe that the way our government was set up 175 years ago, that
the founders felt that public education was necessary to bring about a form
of educating the whole child for civic benefit through a division of point of
the home taking a certain part of the child, the church taking a certain part
of this education, and the government or state through public schools taking
the other part. I adhere to that principle... I think that sectarianism segregation
in our educational system is bad for the children. I do not deny the right of
people to have their own schools. However, I think that we should always look
to the interest of the founders of our nation when they brought about the separation
of church and state. The problem was brought, and it was brought about by Thomas
Jefferson quite well when he said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant
and free in the state of civilization, it expects something that never shall
be". Therefore out of his deliberations with James Madison they brought
about a form of free public education starting in Virginia, and it has come
forward ever since under the intent of having the tax dollar only brought to
the public educational system. "
-Delegate John B. Coghill, Day 48 of the Constitutional Convention
Education: Nenana Public Schools
Public Offices and Organizations:
- Territorial House of Representatives - 1953-57
- State Senate - 1959-65, 1984-90
- Mayor, City of Nenana - 1962-85
- Lieutenant Governor - 1990-94
- Nenana City Council - 2004-
- Veterans of Foreign Wars
