{{Short description|American politician (1829–1905)}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2024}} {{infobox officeholder | name = William Cumback | image = Will Cumback.jpg | office = 16th Lieutenant Governor of Indiana | term_start = January 23, 1867 | term_end = January 13, 1873<br>Acting: January 23, 1867 – January 11, 1869 | governor = Conrad Baker | preceded = Conrad Baker | succeeded = Leonidas Sexton | office1 = Member of the Indiana Senate<br>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 = {{birth date|1829|03|24}} | birth_place = Mount Carmel, Indiana, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1905|07|31|1829|03|24}} | death_place = Greensburg, Indiana, U.S. | party = Republican (after 1860)<br>People's (1854–1860)<br>Whig (before 1854) | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Martha Hurlburt|1851}} * {{marriage|Laura Wachstatter|1901}} }} | education = Miami University<br>Cincinnati Law School | signature = Will Cumback signature.png | allegiance = {{flag|United States|1863}} | branch = Union Army | service_years = 1861–1865 | battles = American Civil War }}
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==Biography == 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.
===Congress === 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, and thereafter resumed practicing law.
===Civil War === 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.
===Later career and death === 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. <!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->He served as a United States revenue collector from 1871 to 1883. <!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->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.
===Legacy === William Cumback is the namesake of the community of Cumback, Indiana.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake|url-access=registration|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake/page/107 107]|quote=...and named for Hoosier politician William Cumback.}}</ref>
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