Henry Sloane Coffin

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Henry Sloane Coffin: Media

American clergyman

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Henry Sloane Coffin, detail from an oil painting by an unknown artist

Henry Sloane Coffin, detail from an oil painting by an unknown artist

Courtesy of the Union Theological Seminary, New York

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