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Herbert Wesley Cummings

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Preceded by
  
Benjamin K. Focht

Died
  
March 4, 1956

Political party
  
Democratic

Party
  
Democratic Party


Name
  
Herbert Cummings

Role
  
U.S. representative

Resigned
  
March 3, 1925

Herbert Wesley Cummings

Born
  
July 13, 1873 West Chillisquaque Township, Pennsylvania (
1873-07-13
)

Succeeded by
  
Frederick William Magrady

Herbert Wesley Cummings (July 13, 1873 – March 4, 1956) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Herbert W. Cummings was born in West Chillisquaque Township, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Lewisburg, Pennsylvania High School in 1890. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. He served as district attorney of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1901 and 1904 to 1908. He was elected judge of the common pleas court of Northumberland County in 1911 and served ten years as president judge.

Cummings was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924. He resumed the practice of law until 1935, when he was appointed judge of Northumberland County. He was subsequently elected and served until 1946. He resumed the practice of law and died in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Interment in Pomsret Manor Cemetery.

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