Linus Bacon Comins | |
State: | Massachusetts |
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 |
Term Start4: | 1846 |
Term End4: | 1848 |
Predecessor4: | None |
Successor4: | Aaron D. Williams Jr. |
Order3: | City of Roxbury, Massachusetts, President of the Common Council |
Term Start3: | 1847 |
Term End3: | 1848 |
Predecessor3: | Francis G. Shaw |
Successor3: | William A. Crafts |
Order2: | 4th Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts |
Term Start2: | 1854 |
Term End2: | 1854 |
Predecessor2: | Samuel Walker |
Successor2: | James Ritchie |
Birth Date: | November 29, 1817 |
Birth Place: | Charlton, Massachusetts |
Death Date: | October 14, 1892 (aged 75) |
Death Place: | Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts |
Restingplace: | Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts |
Party: | American Party, Republican |
Spouse: | Mary Barker |
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.
Comins, the son of Mary (Bacon) Comins and Barnabus C. Comins, 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.
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 Mayor of Roxbury in 1854. He was elected as a candidate of the 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).
After leaving Congress, he resumed manufacturing pursuits. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1860.
Comins died in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, October 14, 1892, and was interred at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain.