Jesse K. Hines

Jesse K. Hines (1829 – September 20, 1889)[1] was a Democratic[2] member of the Maryland House of Delegates from Kent County and served as the Speaker of the House for the 1874 session.[3] Prior to his service in the state House, Hines was a Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County.[4] Hines served as a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War.[5]

Hines was the third[6] state Insurance Commissioner, from 1877 until his death twelve years later in Baltimore.[1][3] In 1881, he fought "graveyard insurance" companies whose policies had become a popular means for western Marylanders to speculate on others' deaths.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Saturday, September 28, 1889". The Cecil Whig. Elkton, Maryland. September 28, 1889. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  2. "Death of a Noted Marylander". Los Angeles Herald. September 29, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved September 13, 2013. one of the Democratic political managers of the State
  3. 1 2 Scharf, John Thomas (1879). History of Maryland. Baltimore: John B. Piet. p. 717. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  4. "Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1874". Maryland State Archives. October 22, 2009. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  5. Scharf, J. Thomas (2003). "Record of Maryland Volunteers in the Union Army". History of Western Maryland. Genealogical Publishing. p. 319. ISBN 9780806345659. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  6. The Annual Cyclopedia of Insurance in the United States. H.R. Hayden. 1891. p. 105.
  7. Graveyard Insurance. The Insurance Times. 14. English & Wilmshurst. September 1881. p. 581. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
Political offices
Preceded by
Arthur Pue Gorman
Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates
1874
Succeeded by
Lewis C. Smith


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