Linus B. Comins

{{Short description|American politician (1817–1892)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Linus Bacon Comins | image = Linus B. Comins, Massachusetts Congressman.jpg | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 4th congressional district|4th]] | term_start = March 4, 1855 | term_end = March 3, 1859 | preceded = [[Samuel H. Walley]] | succeeded = [[Alexander H. Rice]] | order4 = City of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Member of the Common Council Ward 5<ref>{{Citation | title = A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822-1908, Roxbury, 1846-1867, Charlestown 1847-1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634-1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers | pages = 328–329 | publisher = City of Boston Printing Department | location = Boston, MA | year = 1909}}</ref> | term_start4 = 1846 | term_end4 = 1848 | predecessor4 = None | successor4 = Aaron D. Williams Jr.<ref name="City of Boston Printing Department">{{Citation| title = A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822-1908, Roxbury, 1846-1867, Charlestown 1847-1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634-1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers | page = 329 | publisher = City of Boston Printing Department | location = Boston, MA | year = 1909}}</ref> | order3 = City of Roxbury, Massachusetts, President of the Common Council | term_start3 = 1847 | term_end3 = 1848 | predecessor3 = Francis G. Shaw<ref>{{Citation| title = A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822-1908, Roxbury, 1846-1867, Charlestown 1847-1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634-1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers | page = 328 | publisher = City of Boston Printing Department | location = Boston, MA | year = 1909}}</ref> | successor3 = William A. Crafts<ref name="City of Boston Printing Department"/> | order2 = 4th [[List of mayors of Roxbury, Massachusetts|Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts]] | term_start2 = 1854 | term_end2 = 1854 | predecessor2 = [[Samuel Walker (Massachusetts politician)|Samuel Walker]] | successor2 = [[James Ritchie (Massachusetts politician)|James Ritchie]] | birth_date = November 29, 1817 | birth_place = [[Charlton, Massachusetts]] | death_date = October 14, 1892 (aged 75) | death_place = [[Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts]] | resting_place = Forest Hills Cemetery, [[Boston, Massachusetts]] | party = [[Know Nothing|American Party]], [[Republican party (United States)|Republican]] | spouse = Mary Barker<ref>{{Citation |last = Thwing | first = Walter Eliot| title = ''History of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1630–1904'' | page = 331 | publisher = W.A. Butterfield | location = Boston, MA | year = 1908}}</ref> | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Linus Bacon Comins''' (November 29, 1817 – October 14, 1892) was a Massachusetts politician who served as [[Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts]] and as a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Massachusetts]] from 1855 to 1859.

==Early life== Comins, the son of Mary (Bacon)<ref>{{Citation |first=Ellery Bicknell |last=Crane| title =Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts Vol. II | page = 255| publisher = The Lewis Publishing Company | location = New York, NY, Chicago, IL| year = 1907}}</ref> Comins and Barnabus C. Comins,<ref>{{Citation |first=Nathan |last=Crosby| title =Annual obituary notices of eminent persons who have died in the United States For 1857 Vol. 1 | page = 98| publisher = Phillips, Sampson and Company | location = Boston, MA | year = 1858 }}</ref> was born in [[Charlton, Massachusetts]].

Comins attended the common schools at [[Brookfield, Massachusetts]] and was graduated from Worcester County Manual Training High School. He engaged in manufacturing in [[Roxbury, Massachusetts]].

==Political career== Comins was a member of the Roxbury city council from 1846 to 1848 and served as its president in 1847 and 1848. He was the [[List of mayors of Roxbury, Massachusetts|Mayor of Roxbury]] in 1854. He was elected as a candidate of the [[Know Nothing|American Party]] to the [[Thirty-fourth Congress]], March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1857, and as a Republican to the [[Thirty-fifth Congress]] (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859).

==Retirement== After leaving Congress, he resumed manufacturing pursuits. He was a delegate to the [[1860 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention, 1860]].

==Death and burial== Comins died in [[Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts]], October 14, 1892, and was interred at [[Forest Hills Cemetery]] in [[Jamaica Plain]].

== References == <references/>

==Bibliography== *''A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822-1908, Roxbury, 1846-1867, Charlestown 1847-1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634-1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers'', Boston, MA: City of Boston Printing Department, (1909) pp. 328–329. *Thwing, Walter Eliot (1908), ''History of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1630-1904'', Boston, MA: W.A. Butterfield, (1908) p. 331.

==External links== * {{CongBio|C000659}}

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