{{Short description|American dairyman, politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin (1849–1942)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = George Fisher Comings | image = George Comings (Wisconsin lieutenant governor).jpg | office = 24th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin | term_start = January 3, 1921 | term_end = January 5, 1925 | governor = John J. Blaine | predecessor = Edward Dithmar | successor = Henry Huber | birth_date = {{birth date|1849|03|18}} | birth_place = Greensboro, Vermont, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|06|10|1849|03|18|mf=yes}} | death_place = Whitehall, Wisconsin, U.S. | resting_place = Saint Joseph City Cemetery in Saint Joseph, Michigan | citizenship = | party = Prohibition Party<br>Republican Party | spouse = Emma Fannie Comings | children = 8 | alma_mater = | profession = Dairyman<br>Agricultural Lecturer<br>Politician | signature = | website = }} '''George Fisher Comings''' (March 18, 1849 – June 10, 1942) was an American politician, a dairyman, an agricultural lecturer, and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin.
==Early life== Comings was born in Greensboro, Vermont, in 1849. He moved to St. Joseph, Michigan, with his parents in 1870. In 1900, he moved to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he was a dairyman and bred Holstein cattle.
==Career== Comings became well known as a lecturer on agricultural topics, and in 1920, he was elected the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin. He served two terms as lieutenant governor, from January 3, 1921, to January 5, 1925.<ref>''Wisconsin Blue Book'', 1923, Biographical Sketch of George Comings, pp. 602–603.</ref> In the 1924 election, he ran for Governor of Wisconsin but lost in the Republican primary to John J. Blaine, the incumbent.<ref>{{cite news|title=Protector of Animals Was Once Leader in Politics |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5205227/george_comings_18491942/|newspaper=The Post-Crescent |date=April 15, 1938|page=2|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = May 9, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref>
In 1927, Comings began working in the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, and in 1928 he was made a state humane officer. He held that office until his retirement at age 91 in 1939.<ref>{{cite news|title=George Comings Retires Today as Humane Officer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5194637/george_comings_18491942/|newspaper=The Capital Times |date=July 1, 1939|page=1|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = May 8, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref>
==Death== Comings died in 1942 in Whitehall, Wisconsin, and is buried in the Comings plot at the Saint Joseph City Cemetery in Saint Joseph, Michigan.<ref>[http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/berrien/photos/tombstones/city/comings131327nph.txt Berrien County, Michigan-Tombstones]</ref>
==Family life== Son of Benjamin and Mary Comings, he married Emma Fannie Comings on October 12, 1874. They had eight children, Mary Huntington Ghiringhelli, Alice Tenney Larkin, Ellen Copeland Chambers, Benjamin Comings, Francis Comings, George H. Comings, Willard Comings, and Fannie Comings.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Find a Grave|64845004|George F. Comings}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/bb/05bb/695-743.pdf |title=Wisconsin Constitutional Officers; Lieutenant Governors |access-date=October 8, 2007 |date=July 2005 |work=State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2005–2006 |publisher=Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau |pages=31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025041703/http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/bb/05bb/695-743.pdf |archive-date=October 25, 2007 }} *{{cite web|url=http://ltgov.wisconsin.gov/subcategory.asp?linksubcatid=2088&linkcatid=2042&linkid=1070&locid=126 |title=George F. Comings |access-date=October 8, 2007 |work=Office of the Lieutenant Governor |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528100450/http://ltgov.wisconsin.gov/subcategory.asp?linksubcatid=2088&linkcatid=2042&linkid=1070&locid=126 |archive-date=May 28, 2010 }}
{{s-start}} {{s-ppo}} {{s-bef|before = Edward Dithmar}} {{s-ttl|title = Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin|years=1920, 1922}} {{s-aft|after = Henry Huber}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | title = Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin | before = Edward Dithmar | after = Henry Huber | years = 1921–1925}} {{s-end}} {{Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Comings, George}} Category:1849 births Category:1942 deaths Category:Politicians from Eau Claire, Wisconsin Category:People from St. Joseph, Michigan Category:People from Orleans County, Vermont Category:Lieutenant governors of Wisconsin Category:Wisconsin Republicans Category:Leaders of the American Society of Equity