Daniel Webster Comstock
U.S. representative fromIndiana
In office March 4, 1917 – May 19, 1917
Preceded by	Finly H. Gray
Succeeded by	Richard N. Elliott
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 6th congressional district district
Personal details
Born	December 16, 1840 Germantown, Ohio, U.S.
Died	May 19, 1917 (aged 76) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Republican

Daniel Webster Comstock (December 16, 1840 – May 19, 1917) was an American lawyer, jurist, andCivil War veteran who briefly served as aU.S. representative fromIndiana in 1917.

Born inGermantown, Ohio, Comstock attended the common schools, and was graduated from theOhio Wesleyan University,Delaware, Ohio, in 1860.He studied law.He wasadmitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice inNew Castle, Indiana.He served as district attorney in 1862.

During theCivil War 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.

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

Comstock was elected as aRepublican to theSixty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1917, until his death.

After serving less than three months in office, he died inWashington, D.C., on May 19, 1917.He was interred in Earlham Cemetery,Richmond, Indiana.

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

• United States Congress."Daniel Webster Comstock (id: C000663)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

• Works by or about Daniel Webster Comstock at theInternet Archive
• Daniel W. Comstock, late a representative from Indiana, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1919

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