Carman Adam Newcomb (1 July 1830-6 April 1902) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-MO 2) from 4 March 1867 to 3 March 1869, succeeding Henry Taylor Blow and preceding Gustavus A. Finkelnburg.
Biography[]
Carman Adam Newcomb was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania in 1830, and he became a lawyer in Shreveport, Louisiana before moving to West Union, Iowa in 1854. He served as a circuit court judge from 1855 to 1860, as a Union Army captain during the American Civil War, in the Missouri State House from 1865 to 1866, in the US House of Representatives from 1867 to 1869, and US Marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri from 1869 to 1875. He died in 1902.