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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaDaniel Webster COMSTOCK
(1840-1917)
COMSTOCK, Daniel Webster,
a Representative from Indiana; born in Germantown, Montgomery
County, Ohio, December 16, 1840; attended the common schools, and
was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in
1860; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced
practice in New Castle, Ind.; district attorney in 1862; during the
Civil War 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; settled in Richmond, Ind., in
1866; city attorney in 1866; prosecuting attorney of the Wayne
circuit court 1872-1874; member of the State senate in 1878; judge
of the seventeenth judicial circuit 1886-1895; judge of the
appellate court 1896-1911; resumed the practice of law; elected as
a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress and served from March 4,
1917, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 19, 1917; interment
in Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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