Linus B. Comins

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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Comins Linus attended the public schools in Brookfield, followed by the Worcester County Manual Training High School. Subsequently, he worked in Roxbury in the craft. In the years 1846-1848 he was sitting in the local council; In 1854, he was there also mayor. Politically he was first a member of the American Party. Later he moved to the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Comins was in the fourth electoral district of Massachusetts for the American Party in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel H. Walley on March 4, 1855. After a re-election as a Republican candidate, he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1859 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War.

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