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William Tharp Cunningham

William Tharp Cunningham
Louisiana State Representative for Natchitoches Parish
In office
1908–1912
Preceded by

Three-member district:
C. Chaplin, Jr.
E. E. Hammett

P. A. Sompayrae
Succeeded by

Three-member district:
J. Isaac Friedman
Joseph C. Henry

Paul M. Potts
Personal details
Born (1871-08-21)August 21, 1871
Louisiana

Louisiana, USA
Died February 7, 1952(1952-02-07) (aged 80)
, Louisiana
Resting place American Cemetery in Natchitoches
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Emma Johnson Cunningham (married 1895-1952, his death)
Relations

Charles Milton Cunningham (brother)
W. Peyton Cunningham (nephew)

Mildred Methvin (great-niece)
Children No children
Parents

Milton Joseph Cunningham

Thalia Allen Tharp Cunningham
Alma mater

Tulane University
Northwestern State University

Tulane University School of Law
Occupation Lawyer; planter

Three-member district:
C. Chaplin, Jr.
E. E. Hammett

Three-member district:
J. Isaac Friedman
Joseph C. Henry

Charles Milton Cunningham (brother)
W. Peyton Cunningham (nephew)

Milton Joseph Cunningham

Tulane University
Northwestern State University

William Tharp Cunningham, known as W. T. Cunningham or as Bill Cunningham (August 21, 1871 – February 7, 1952), was a lawyer and judge in , Louisiana, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for one term between 1908 and 1912.

Descended from a prominent political family, he was a son of the former Thalia Allen Tharp (1843-1872) and Milton Joseph Cunningham, known as Joe Cunningham, a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature and the Attorney General of Louisiana from 1884 to 1888 and again from 1892 to 1900. W. T.'s mother died at the age of twenty-nine when he was only a year old. Cunningham was reared in his native Natchitoches, where he attended public schools, the preparatory department of Tulane University in New Orleans, and the Louisiana State Normal School, a teacher-training institution, now Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. For fourteen years, he was engaged in farming and stock raising and thereafter retained plantation interests. He studied law at Tulane University School of Law and in 1904 was admitted to the bar before the Louisiana Supreme Court. After a term in the state House of Representatives, during which time he continued his private law practice as well, Cunningham was elected in 1912 as a state judge of the 11th Judicial District Court, encompassing Natchitoches and Red River parishes.


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