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Isaac N. Coggs

1920–1973

United States

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Isaac Newton Coggs (June 5, 1920 – April 8, 1973) was an American accountant, Democratic politician, and civil rights leader from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for six terms, from 1953 to 1965. In the Assembly, he was the second African American to chair a Wisconsin legislative committee.

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