Senate Resolution No. 8–Senators Raggio, Titus, Amodei, Care, Carlton, Coffin, Jacobsen, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O’Connell, O’Donnell, Porter, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Townsend, Washington and Wiener
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SENATE RESOLUTION—Inducting Henry A.Comins into the Senate Hall of Fame.
Whereas, The Senate of the Legislature of the State of Nevada has
established a Senate Hall of Fame whose members are selected by
leadership from those past Senators who have served with distinction and
who have made exemplary contributions to the State of Nevada; and
Whereas, A dedicated legislator who served longer than any other
nineteenth century legislator, Henry A. Comins represented the residents
of White Pine County for 18 years, traveling the considerable distance
between Ely and Carson City to serve as an Assemblyman in 1875 and
1876 and as a Senator from 1877 through 1880 and from 1889 through
1900, leading the Senate as President pro Tempore for the 1891 regular
session; and
Whereas, Even though his party did not control the Senate in 1877,
Senator Comins was named chairman of the Senate Committee on Ways
and Means that year, his first term as a Senator, and served with
distinction on that committee during his entire Senate career, chairing it
four additional times; and
Whereas, A key legislator for the women’s suffrage movement in
Nevada, in 1895 Senator Comins sponsored the first bill for a
constitutional amendment that would have given women the right to vote,
a measure which was approved by both legislative houses that session but
failed to receive the required second legislative approval 2 years later;
Resolved by the Senate of the State of Nevada, That Henry A.
Comins, an influential legislative leader in the nineteenth century who
helped shape the financial and tax policy of this state, is hereby inducted
into the Senate Hall of Fame of the Legislature of the State of Nevada.
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