Daniel Webster Comstock

Daniel Webster Comstock

Daniel Webster Comstock (born December 16, 1840 in Germantown , Montgomery County , Ohio , †  May 19, 1917 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between March and May 1917 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Daniel Comstock attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1860 at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware (Ohio). After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1861, he began to work in this profession in New Castle (Indiana). In 1862 he was a district attorney. Then he took part in the civil war. He rose to the rank of captain in the Union's army . At the time he was part of the Mississippi occupation forces . After the war, he settled in Richmond in 1866 , where he became the city's legal representative. From 1872 to 1874 Comstock was a district attorney in Wayne County . From 1886 to 1895 he served as a judge in the 17th Judicial District of Indiana; thereafter he was a judge at an appeals court until 1911. He then practiced as a private lawyer until 1917.

Politically, Comstock was a member of the Republican Party . In 1878 he was elected to the Indiana Senate. In the 1916 congressional election , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the sixth constituency of Indiana, where he succeeded Finly H. Gray on March 4, 1917 . He could only exercise his mandate in Congress until his death on May 19 of the same year. During this time the United States entered the First World War .

Web links

• Daniel Webster Comstock in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Daniel Webster Comstock in the database of Find a Grave (English)