Career
Prior to his service in the state House, Hines was a Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent County. Captain Hines served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Hines was the third state Insurance Commissioner, from 1877 until his death twelve years later in Baltimore.
In 1881, he fought "graveyard insurance" companies whose policies had become a popular means for western Marylanders to speculate on others" deaths.
