William Cumback was a U.S. Representative

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 from Indiana

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Born near Mount Carmel, Indiana

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, Cumback attended the common schools and was graduated from Miami University

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, Oxford, Ohio

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He taught school two years.
He studied law at the Cincinnati Law School.
He was admitted to the bar

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 and commenced practice in Greensburg, Indiana

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, in 1853.

Cumback was elected as an Opposition Party

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 candidate to the Thirty-fourth

34th United States Congress

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 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

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 in the Army and served throughout the Civil War

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He served as member of the State senate in 1866.
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana in 1868.
He was an unsuccessful for election to the United States Senate

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 in 1869. President Grant

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 nominated Cumback as the U.S. Minister to Portugal

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 in 1870 but he declined the appointment.
United States revenue collector 1871-1883.
Trustee of DePauw University

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, Greencastle, Indiana

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He was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for Governor in 1896.
He died in Greensburg, Indiana

Greensburg, Indiana

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, July 31, 1905.
He was interred in South Park Cemetery.