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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriAbram COMINGO
(1820-1889)
COMINGO, Abram, a
Representative from Missouri; born near Harrodsburg, Mercer County,
Ky., January 9, 1820; attended the common and high schools and was
graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky.; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in Harrodsburg, Ky., in 1847; moved to
Independence, Mo., in 1848 and commenced the practice of law;
delegate to the Missouri State convention in February 1861;
appointed provost marshal of the sixth district of Missouri in May
1863; elected recorder of deeds of Jackson County in 1868; elected
as a Democrat to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March
4, 1871-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in
1874; resumed the practice of law in Independence, Mo.; appointed
by President Grant in 1876 a member of the commission to arbitrate
with the Sioux Indians for the possession of Sioux lands in Dakota
bordering on the Black Hills; moved to Kansas City, Mo., in 1881;
retired from public life; died in Kansas City, Mo., November 10,
1889; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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