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|death_place=[[New Orleans]], Louisiana
|death_place=[[New Orleans]], Louisiana
|resting_place=American Cemetery in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana
|resting_place=American Cemetery in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana
|spouse=(1) Thalia Allen Tharp (married 1866-1872, her death)
|spouse=(1) Thalia Allen Tharp<br> (married 1866-1872, her death)
(2) Anne Peyton (married 1874-1878, her death)<br>
(2) Anne Peyton (married 1874-1878, her death)<br>
(3) Cecile Hertzog (married 1880-1886, her death)<br>
(3) Cecile Hertzog (married 1880-1886, her death)<br>
From 1880 to 1884, Cunningham, a [[Democratic|Democrat]], was a state senator for both [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]] and his native DeSoto Parish in northwestern Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana Senate, 1880-2024|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=June 16, 2020}}</ref> From 1878 to 1880, Cunningham was a state representative. A son from his first marriage, William Tharp Cunningham, and a grandson, [[W. Peyton Cunningham]], both Natchitoches lawyers, also served in the state House of Representatives, from 1908 to 1912 and from 1932 to 1940, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Natchitoches Parish|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=June 16, 2020}}</ref>
From 1880 to 1884, Cunningham, a [[Democratic|Democrat]], was a state senator for both [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches Parish]] and his native DeSoto Parish in northwestern Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana Senate, 1880-2024|publisher=Louisiana State Senate|accessdate=June 16, 2020}}</ref> From 1878 to 1880, Cunningham was a state representative. A son from his first marriage, William Tharp Cunningham, and a grandson, [[W. Peyton Cunningham]], both Natchitoches lawyers, also served in the state House of Representatives, from 1908 to 1912 and from 1932 to 1940, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Natchitoches Parish|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=June 16, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
==Background==
Born in DeSoto Parish, Cunningham was the son of John Hamilton Cunningham (1812-1886), a native of [[South Carolina]], and the former Ann Buie (1814-1850), originally from [[Mississippi]]. He was the fourth of John Cunningham's twelve children by three wives. John Cunningham was a man of many occupations: a physician, merchant, planter, lawyer, and [[Christian]] minister, possibly [[Baptist]]. The family moved in the 1840s to Homer in Claiborne Parish, where John practiced medicine, and the children attended school. In his later years, John Cunningham was briefly a newspaperman, the editor of the ''Robeline Reporter,'' a weekly paper published in the 1880s in [[rural]] Robeline in western Natchitoches Parish.<ref>Alcée Fortier, ed., ''Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form,'' (Volume 3), Century Historical Association, 1914, pp. 112-113.</ref>
Born in DeSoto Parish, Cunningham was the son of John Hamilton Cunningham (1812-1886), a native of [[South Carolina]], and the former Ann Buie (1814-1850), originally from [[Mississippi]]. He was the fourth of John Cunningham's twelve children by three wives. John Cunningham was a man of many occupations: a physician, merchant, planter, lawyer, and [[Christian]] minister, possibly [[Baptist]]. The family moved in the 1840s to Homer in Claiborne Parish, where John practiced medicine, and the children attended school. In his later years, John Cunningham was briefly a newspaperman, the editor of the ''Robeline Reporter,'' a weekly paper published in the 1880s in [[rural]] Robeline in western Natchitoches Parish.<ref>Alcée Fortier, ed., ''Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form,'' (Volume 3), Century Historical Association, 1914, pp. 112-113.</ref>