Abram Comingo was a Democratic

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 Representative

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 representing Missouri

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 from March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875.

Comingo was born near Harrodsburg, Kentucky

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 in Mercer County, Kentucky

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. He graduated from Centre College

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 in Danville, Kentucky

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 and was admitted to the bar in 1847.

He moved to Independence, Missouri

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 in 1848, was delegate to the Missouri State convention in February 1861 which decided that Missouri would remain in the Union in the American Civil War

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; appointed provost marshal of the sixth district of Missouri in May 1863; elected recorder of deeds

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 of Jackson County, Missouri

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 in 1868.

After two terms in Congress he did not stand for re-election. He was appointed by Ulysses S. Grant

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 to a commission to arbitrate Sioux

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 land claims in Dakota Territory

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 in 1876. He moved to Kansas City, Missouri

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in 1881 and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery there.