George Comings

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George Fisher Comings (March 18, 1849 – June 10, 1942)^[1] was a Wisconsin politician. He was born in Greensboro, Vermont in 1849, but moved to St. Joseph, Michigan with his parents in 1870. In 1900, Comings moved to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he was a dairyman and bred Holstein cattle. He became well known as a lecturer on agricultural topics, and in 1920, he was elected the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin; he served two terms as lieutenant governor, from 1921 until 1925.^[2] In the 1924 election, he ran for Governor of Wisconsin but lost in the Republican primary to John J. Blaine, the incumbent. In 1927, he began working in the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, and in 1928 he was made a state humane officer. He held that office until his retirement at age 91 in 1939; he died in 1942 in Whitehall, Wisconsin and is buried in the Comings plot at the Saint Joseph City Cemetery in Saint Joseph, Michigan.

Notes

↑ Berrien County, Michigan-Tombstones
↑ 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1923,' Biographical Sketch of George Comings, pg. 626-263

References

"Wisconsin Constitutional Officers; Lieutenant Governors" (PDF). State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2005–2006. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. July 2005. p. 31. Retrieved October 8, 2007.
"George F. Comings". Office of the Lieutenant Governor. Retrieved October 8, 2007.

Political offices
Preceded by Edward Dithmar	Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin 1921–1925	Succeeded by Henry Huber

v t e Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin

Holmes Beall Burns Lewis MacArthur Campbell Noble Salomon Spooner Pound Pettit Parker Bingham Fifield Ryland Jonas Baensch Stone Davidson Connor Strange Morris Dithmar Comings Huber O'Malley Gunderson Ekern Goodland Rennebohm Smith Knowles Nash Knowles J. Olson Lucey J. Olson Schreiber R. Olson Flynn McCallum Farrow Lawton Kleefisch

Persondata
Name	Comings, George
Alternative names
Short description	dairyman, politician; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
Date of birth	March 18, 1849
Place of birth	Greenboro, Vermont, United States
Date of death	June 10, 1942
Place of death	?

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