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From 1900 to 1904, Governor William Wright Heard named Cunningham the public administrator for  Orleans Parish, and he continued to practice law in New Orleans and held valuable farm lands in Natchitoches Parish. He was living on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans in 1904; on Coliseum Street, in the 1910 census.<ref name=mjc/>​

From 1900 to 1904, Governor William Wright Heard named Cunningham the public administrator for  Orleans Parish, and he continued to practice law in New Orleans and held valuable farm lands in Natchitoches Parish. He was living on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans in 1904; on Coliseum Street, in the 1910 census.<ref name=mjc/>​

==Family and death==​

==Family and death==

 

Cunningham's first two wives, Thalia Tharp (1843-1872) and Annie Peyton (1852-1878), died after short marriages. He was left to rear five young children, one of whom, a son, John Hamilton Cunningham, II, drowned at the age of nine. In 1880, at the age of thirty-eight, Cunningham married Cecile Hertzong (1860-1886), who was twenty. She had been reared at what is now Melrose Plantation in south Natchitoches Parish. From the third marriage were born four more children in addition to his previous four living children. When the fourth daughter was only a few months old, Cecile died at the age of twenty-six. At some point, an [[African-American]] former slave, Mary "Mammy" Pitcher (1847-1913), moved into the household to care for the children. Cunningham did not marry again until 1895, when he wed for his fourth and last time Emma Mai Blouin (1876-1945), a member of a prominent New Orleans family and his surviving widow.<ref name=mjc/>​

Cunningham's first two wives, Thalia Tharp (1843-1872) and Annie Peyton (1852-1878), died after short marriages. He was left to rear five young children, one of whom, a son, John Hamilton Cunningham, II, drowned at the age of nine. In 1880, at the age of thirty-eight, Cunningham married Cecile Hertzong (1860-1886), who was twenty. She had been reared at what is now Melrose Plantation in south Natchitoches Parish. From the third marriage were born four more children in addition to his previous four living children. When the fourth daughter was only a few months old, Cecile died at the age of twenty-six. At some point, an [[African-American]] former slave, Mary "Mammy" Pitcher (1847-1913), moved into the household to care for the children. Cunningham did not marry again until 1895, when he wed for his fourth and last time Emma Mai Blouin (1876-1945), a member of a prominent New Orleans family and his surviving widow.<ref name=mjc/>​