Albert B. Cummins

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Albert Baird Cummins (February 15, 1850 - July 30, 1926) was a U.S. political figure. He was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania and lived in Pennsylvania until about 1869. As a young man, he lived in Iowa, Indiana and Illinois before finally settling in Iowa and practicing law.

He served as governor of Iowa between 1902 and 1908 and then in 1908 he sought to be elected United States Senator in place of Senator William B. Allison but was unsuccessful in that effort. But after Senator Allison died on Aug. 4, 1908, the Iowa legislature in November, 1908, did elect Cummins to succeed Allison, and Cummins served as a United States Senator from Iowa for 18 years, from 1908 until his death. He served as president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate between 1919 and 1925. Cummins was a member of the United States Republican Party. In June, 1926, he was defeated in his bid to be renominated in the Republican primary by Smith W. Brookhart, who had been ejected from the other Iowa Senate seat to which Brookhart had apparently been elected in 1924. Cummins died in Des Moines, Iowa.

Preceded by Leslie M. Shaw	Governor of Iowa January 16, 1902 – November 24, 1908	Succeeded by Warren Garst
Preceded by Willard Saulsbury, Jr.	President pro tempore of the United States Senate May 19, 1919–March 6, 1925	Succeeded by George H. Moses

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