Linus B. Comins

Linus B. Comins (1859)

Linus Bacon Comins (born November 29, 1817 in Charlton , Worcester County , Massachusetts , †  October 14, 1892 in Boston , Massachusetts) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Linus Comins attended Brookfield public schools and then Worcester County Manual Training High School . He then worked in Roxbury in the trade. From 1846 to 1848 he sat on the local council; In 1854 he was also mayor there. Politically, he was initially a member of the American Party . He later switched to the Republican Party .

In the congressional election of 1854 Comins was elected to the American Party in the fourth constituency of Massachusett in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Samuel H. Walley on March 4, 1855 . After being re-elected as a Republican candidate, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1859 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Comins worked again in the trade. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention , where Abraham Lincoln was nominated as a presidential candidate. He died on October 14, 1892 in Jamaica Plain , a suburb of Boston.

Web links

• Linus B. Comins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Linus B. Comins in the database of Find a Grave (English)