Francis W. Cushman

Francis Wellington Cushman (May 8, 1867 – July 6, 1909) was a U.S. Representative from Washington.

Born in Brighton, Iowa, Cushman attended public schools in Brighton and Pleasant Plain Academy in Pleasant Plain, Iowa. In 1885, he moved to Albany County, Wyoming, where he worked as a ranch hand and a teacher. He was admitted to the bar in 1889 and began practising law in Bassett, Nebraska.

In 1891, he relocated to Tacoma, Washington, and continued his legal practice. He served as a member of Troop B, First Cavalry, Washington National Guard from 1896 to 1903.

Cushman was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1899, until his death in New York City on July 6, 1909.

In 1908, he argued to keep open Puallup Indian School because of economic benefits, and in 1910 it was renamed Cushman Indian School in his honor.

• At Point Defiance Park Tacoma, Washington 2018
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• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

• United States Congress. "Francis W. Cushman (id: C001018)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Francis W. Cushman, late a Representative from Washington, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1910

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress