Abram Comingo

Abram Comingo

Abram Comingo (born January 9, 1820 in Harrodsburg , Kentucky , †  November 10, 1889 in Kansas City , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Abram Comingo attended public schools in his home country and then Center College in Danville . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1847, he began to work in this profession from 1848 in Independence (Missouri). Politically, Comingo was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1861 he was a delegate at the meeting that decided that Missouri should remain in the Union. In 1863, Comingo became Provost Marshal in Missouri's Sixth Ward; from 1868 he acted as head of the land registry ( Register of Deeds ) in Jackson County .

In the congressional election of 1870 Comingo was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Robert T. Van Horn on March 4, 1871 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1875 . Since 1873 he represented the eighth district of his state there as the successor to James G. Blair .

In 1874 Comingo decided not to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he returned to practice as a lawyer in Independence. In 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him a member of a negotiating committee with the Sioux . It was about land issues in the Dakota Territory . In 1881, Abram Comingo moved to Kansas City, where he spent his retirement. He died there on November 10, 1889.

Web links

• Abram Comingo in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Abram Comingo in the database of Find a Grave (English)