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  McComas, Louis E.
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AffiliationRepublican  
 
NameLouis E. McComas
Address
Hagerstown, Maryland , United States
EmailNone
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Born October 28, 1846
DiedNovember 10, 1907 (61 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
Last ModifedRBH
Aug 28, 2015 02:36am
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InfoMcCOMAS, Louis Emory, (grandfather of Katharine Edgar Byron and great-grandfather of Goodloe Edgar Byron), a Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born near Hagerstown, Washington County, Md., October 28, 1846; attended St. James College, Maryland; graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1866; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1868 and practiced in Hagerstown, Md.; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; secretary of the Republican National Committee 1892; on November 17, 1892, was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, which office he held until elected Senator; professor of international law, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1899, until March 3, 1905; chairman, Committee on Organization, Conduct, and Expenditures of Executive Departments (Fifty-sixth Congress), Committee on Education and Labor (Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses); appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as a justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in 1905, and served until his death; died in Washington, D.C., November 10, 1907; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Md.




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FAMILY
Daughter Mary McComas Edgar 1877-1953
Granddaughter Katharine Edgar Byron 1903-1976

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  02/04/1904 MD US Senate Lost 29.51% (-40.98%)
  00/00/1898 MD US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/04/1890 MD District 6 Lost 48.77% (-0.48%)
  11/06/1888 MD District 6 Won 51.60% (+4.42%)
  11/02/1886 MD District 6 Won 49.67% (+1.22%)
  11/04/1884 MD District 6 Won 52.35% (+4.70%)
  11/07/1882 MD District 6 Won 51.68% (+4.21%)
  11/07/1876 MD District 6 Lost 49.98% (-0.04%)
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