William Cumback | |
Office: | 16th Lieutenant Governor of Indiana |
Term Start: | January 23, 1867 |
Term End: | January 13, 1873 Acting: January 23, 1867 – January 11, 1869 |
Governor: | Conrad Baker |
Preceded: | Conrad Baker |
Succeeded: | Leonidas Sexton |
Office1: | Member of the Indiana Senate from Decatur County |
Term Start1: | January 10, 1867 |
Term End1: | January 7, 1869 |
Preceded1: | D. R. VanBuskirk |
Succeeded1: | W. J. Robinson |
State2: | Indiana |
District2: | 4th |
Term Start2: | March 4, 1855 |
Term End2: | March 3, 1857 |
Preceded2: | James H. Lane |
Succeeded2: | James B. Foley |
Birth Date: | 24 March 1829 |
Birth Place: | Mount Carmel, Indiana, U.S. |
Death Place: | Greensburg, Indiana, U.S. |
Party: | Republican (after 1860) People's (1854–1860) Whig (before 1854) |
Spouse: | |
Education: | Miami University Cincinnati Law School |
Signature: | Will Cumback signature.png |
Allegiance: | United States |
Branch: | Union Army |
Serviceyears: | 1861–1865 |
Battles: | American Civil War |
William Cumback (March 24, 1829 – July 31, 1905) was an American lawyer and Civil War veteran who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1855 to 1857.
Born near Mount Carmel, Indiana, Cumback attended the common schools and was graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.He taught school two years.He studied law at the Cincinnati Law School.He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Greensburg, Indiana, in 1853.
Cumback was elected as an Indiana People's Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856.
He resumed the practice of law.
He was appointed a paymaster in the Army and served throughout the Civil War.He served as member of the State senate in 1866.The 16th Lieutenant Governor of Indiana in 1868.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1869.
President U.S. Grant nominated Cumback as the U.S. Minister to Portugal in 1870 but he declined the appointment.He served as a United States revenue collector from 1871 to 1883.He also served as a trustee of DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for governor in 1896.
He died in Greensburg, Indiana, July 31, 1905.He was interred in South Park Cemetery.
William Cumback is the namesake of the community of Cumback, Indiana.[1]