Daniel Webster Comstock
{{Short description|American politician (1840–1917)}}
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| office = U.S. representative from Indiana
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| term_start = March 4, 1917
| term_end = May 19, 1917
| predecessor = Finly H. Gray
| successor = Richard N. Elliott
| state1 = Indiana
| district1 = 6th congressional district
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| birth_date = December 16, 1840
| birth_place = Germantown, Ohio, U.S.
| death_date = May 19, 1917 (aged 76)
| death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.
| party = Republican
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Daniel Webster Comstock (December 16, 1840 – May 19, 1917) was an American lawyer, jurist, and Civil War veteran who briefly served as a U.S. representative from Indiana in 1917.
Biography
Born in Germantown, Ohio, Comstock attended the common schools, and was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in 1860.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice in New Castle, Indiana.
He served as district attorney in 1862.
=Civil War =
During the Civil War he enlisted in the Ninth Indiana Cavalry and was successively promoted to regimental sergeant major, first lieutenant, captain, and acting assistant adjutant general in the military division of Mississippi.
=Career=
He settled in Richmond, Indiana, in 1866 and became a city attorney in that year. He served as prosecuting attorney of the Wayne circuit court from 1872 to 1874.
He served as member of the state senate in 1878. He served as judge of the seventeenth judicial circuit from 1886 to 1895. He served as judge of the appellate court from 1896 to 1911 after which he resumed the practice of law.
=Congress =
Comstock was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1917, until his death.
=Death=
After serving less than three months in office, he died in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 1917.
He was interred in Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Indiana.
See also
References
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Daniel Webster Comstock |sopt=t}}
- [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000041574876;view=1up;seq=9 Daniel W. Comstock, late a representative from Indiana, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1919]
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Category:People of Indiana in the American Civil War
Category:Indiana state court judges
Category:Republican Party Indiana state senators
Category:People from Richmond, Indiana
Category:Burials at Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Indiana
Category:Ohio Wesleyan University alumni
Category:People from Germantown, Ohio
Category:19th-century Indiana state court judges
Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana
Category:20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
Category:19th-century members of the Indiana General Assembly