OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Homer Stillé Cummings

BORN:
April 30, 1870;
Chicago, Illinois

DIED:
September 10, 1956 (age 86);
Stamford, Connecticut

EDUCATION:
Yale University (Ph.B., 1891)
Yale University (LLB, 1893

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

HIGHLIGHTS:
1895-1909:
Practiced Law in Stamford, Connecticut
1900-1902, 1904-1906:
Mayor of Stamford, Connecticut
1902:
Unsuccessful Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
1900-1925:
Member, Democratic National Committee;
Delegate to several Democratic National Conventions from 1900-1944.
1903-1909:
President, Stamford Board of Trade
1913-1919:
Vice Chairman, Democratic National Committee
1914-1924:
State’s Attorney for Fairfield County, Connecticut
1916:
Unsuccessful Candidate for U.S. Senate
1919-1920:
Chairman, Democratic National Committee
1925-1933:
Practiced Law
1933-1939:
U.S. Attorney General

PORTRAITS:

Department of Justice Portrait (Artist: Henry R. Rittenberg)

RESOURCES:

President Roosevelt and Attorney General Homer Cummings at a crime conference in 1934 (Harris & Ewing/ Library of Congress)

BIOGRAPHIES:
Department of Justice
UVA Miller Center
Wikipedia

OBITUARIES:
New York Times

PAPERS:
University of Virginia