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]
^"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
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abScharf, John Thomas (1879).
History of Maryland. Baltimore: John B. Piet. p. 717. Retrieved September 13, 2013.