Daniel Webster Comstock (December 16, 1840 – May 19, 1917) was an American lawyer, jurist, and

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veteran who briefly served as a

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from

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in 1917.

Biography

Born in

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, Comstock attended the common schools, and was graduated from the

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, in 1860. He studied law. He was

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in 1861 and commenced practice in

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. He served as district attorney in 1862.

Civil War

During the

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

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, in 1866 and became a city attorney in that year. He served as prosecuting attorney of the Wayne circuit court from 1872–1874. He served as member of the state senate in 1878. He served as judge of the seventeenth judicial circuit from 1886–1895. He served as judge of the appellate court from 1896–1911 after which he resumed the practice of law.

Congress

Comstock was elected as a

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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

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, on May 19, 1917. He was interred in Earlham Cemetery,

References

External links

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Daniel W. Comstock, late a representative from Indiana, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1919
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