Cyrus Livingston Dunham

Birth Date

1817-01-16

Death Date

1877-11-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Marion County, Indiana, attorney, statesman, and soldier. Tompkins County, New York, native. Attended Cortland Academy in New York. Attorney in Washington County, Indiana, in 1841. Prosecuting attorney in Washington County in 1845. Representative in the Indiana State House of Representatives from Washington County from 1846 to 1847. Democratic representative in the United States House of Representatives from the 2nd and 3rd District of Indiana from 1849 to 1855. Secretary of state of Indiana in 1859 and 1860. Served in the 50th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment as colonel from September 1, 1861, to November 18, 1863. Attorney in New Albany, Indiana, in 1863. Representative in the Indiana State House of Representatives from Floyd County from 1864 to 1865.

"Cyrus Livingston Dunham, (1817-1877)," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present, https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=D000540 (accessed on April 8, 2021).
Catalogue of the Trustees, Instructors and Students of Cortland Academy, Dec. 1839, (Homer Village, NY: Republican and Eagle Offices, 1839), 4.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Being the First Session of the Thirty-First Congress, vol. 45, (Washington D.C.: Printed for the House of Representatives, 1850), 7.
James Sutherland, ed., Indianapolis City Directory and Business Mirror for 1861, (Indianapolis: Bowen, Stewart and Co., Publishers and booksellers, 1861), 270.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 2, 1861-1865 (Indianapolis: W.R. Holloway, 1865), 490.
Find A Grave, "Cyrus Livingston Dunham (1817-1877)," Memorial #7184455, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7184455 (accessed April 8, 2021).

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