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Coffelt Plaque
Coffelt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jon Coffelt (born 1963), American artist * Leslie Coffelt (1910–1950), American police officer * Soraya Diase Coffelt (born 1958), United States Virgin Islands lawyer and judge {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Coffelt
Johnny Lee Coffelt (born May 16, 1963) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes book arts, and curates art exhibitions. Background Coffelt was born to Dorcas Ann (née Shadrick) and John Henry Coffelt and has two sisters, Joanna and Janie. Coffelt was raised in the East Tennessee mountains in the town of Palmer and the community of Griffith Creek near Whitwell, Tennessee. Coffelt has been painting since he was eight years old when his grandfather, John Ervin Coffelt taught him how to paint. Coffelt still considers himself a colorist. Career Coffelt's career began in the fashion industry designing clothing as well as fabric for Willi Smith in the 1980s. Once he decided to devote his full energies to art he was commissioned by Jim Mitchell to paint over 100 works for the Parisian Department Store chain. In 1989 Coffelt received "Outstanding Ten Year Alumnus Award" from Southern Institute. Coffelt was the inaugura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Coffelt
Leslie William Coffelt (August 15, 1910 – November 1, 1950) was an officer of the White House Police, a branch of the Secret Service, who was killed while successfully defending U.S. President Harry S. Truman against an attempted assassination on November 1, 1950, at Blair House, where the president was living during renovations at the White House. Coffelt was wounded during the assassination attempt, which two Puerto Rican nationalists carried out. Though mortally wounded by three bullets, Coffelt returned fire moments later and killed one of the attackers with a single shot to the head. The other was convicted by a federal jury and sentenced to death; Truman commuted the sentence to life imprisonment and Jimmy Carter released the man from jail in 1979. Acknowledging the importance of the question of Puerto Rico's status, Truman authorized a referendum in Puerto Rico in 1952 to determine its relationship to the U.S. Personal life Leslie Coffelt was born to Will Coffelt an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
