William McComas

Who was William McComas?

William McComas was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.

Born near Pearisburg, Virginia, McComas attended private schools and Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the practice of law. He also was a Methodist minister. He served as member of the state senate 1830-1833.

McComas was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress. He resumed his former activities. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress. He served as delegate to the state secession convention in 1861 and voted against the ordinance. He served as judge of the United States district court during the Civil War. He died on his farm near Barboursville, Virginia, June 3, 1865. He was interred in the family cemetery.