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American journalist
Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings
(May 21, 1831 – April 16, 1909) was an American lawyer,
Civil War
officer, editor and publisher, and one-term
Republican
congressman from
Iowa's 7th Congressional District
.
Early life
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Born in
Newton, New Jersey
, Cummings attended public schools in
Muncy, Pennsylvania
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Career
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He was editor of a newspaper in
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
, in 1850, studied law and was
admitted to the bar
in 1855. He moved to
Winterset, Iowa
, in 1856; he served as
prosecuting attorney
for
Madison County
from 1856 to 1858.
In July 1861, Cummings enlisted in the
Union Army
, and was made
captain
of Company F of the
4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
. He accepted the commission of
colonel
in the
39th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
on September 12, 1862, and he was
honorably discharged
on December 22, 1864. Afterward, he became editor and proprietor of the
Winterset Madisonian.
In 1876 he was elected as a Republican to succeed
John A. Kasson
as the representative of Iowa's 7th Congressional District in the
U. S. House of Representatives
. He served in the
45th United States Congress
, from 1877 to 1879. Running for re-election in 1879, he was defeated in the general election by
Greenback Party
candidate
Edward H. Gillette
.
Death
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Cummings died in Winterset on April 16, 1909, and was interred in Winterset Cemetery.
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