Robert B. McComb

Robert B. McComb

Member

Photo credit:

Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1854 Representative Whig
1855 Representative Whig
1856 Representative Republican
Counties Beaver, Butler, Lawrence

Biography

08/15/1820 - 09/22/1906


McCOMB, Robert B., a Representative from Beaver, Butler and Lawrence Counties; born, August 15, 1820 in Indian Run, Mercer County, Pa.; colonel, 14th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1862, Civil War); colonel, 55th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1863, Civil War); cabinet maker (1837-1850); lawyer (1853-1906); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1854 and 1855 terms; reelected to the House as a Republican for the 1856 term; member, Commission to Revise and Codify the State Revenue Laws (1862); died, September 22, 1906 in Sandy Lake, Mercer County, Pennsylvania; interred, Graceland Cemetery, New Castle, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.


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