George Fisher Comings was a Wisconsin

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Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

 politician. He was born in Greensboro, VT in 1849, but moved to St. Joseph, Michigan

St. Joseph, Michigan

St. Joseph is a city in the US state of Michigan. It was incorporated as a village in 1834 and as a city in 1891. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 8,789. It lies on the shore of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the St. Joseph River, about east-northeast of Chicago. It is the county...

 with his parents in 1870. In 1900, Comings moved to Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Eau Claire, Wisconsin

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, where he was a dairyman and bred Holstein cattle. He became well-known as a lecturer

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 on agricultural

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 topics, and in 1920, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

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; he served two terms as lieutenant governor, from 1921 until 1925. In the 1924 election, he ran for Governor of Wisconsin

Governor of Wisconsin

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 but lost in the Republican

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 primary

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 to John J. Blaine

John J. Blaine

John James Blaine was the 24th Governor of Wisconsin and a United States Senator. He served as Mayor of Boscobel, on the Grant County Board of Supervisors, Wisconsin Attorney General, and in the Wisconsin State Senate...

, 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, WI and is buried in the Comings plot at the Saint Joseph City Cemetery in Saint Joseph, MI.