Peter Hood Ballantine Cumming (August 1, 1910 – November 16, 1988) was an executive in several firms and served as Mayor of Rumson, New Jersey from 1950 to 1951.[1]
He was born on August 1, 1910. He was the great-grandson of Peter Ballantine. Cumming was the son of Robert W. Cumming. He attended St. Mark's School[2] and then Princeton University where he was on the rowing team[3] and the sailing team.[4] He married Dorothy Classen, daughter of Henry Washington Classon. They had three daughters, Dorothy, Diane, and Susan.[5]
He died of cancer on November 16, 1988 in Little Silver, New Jersey.[1]
He was Mayor of Rumson, New Jersey from 1950 to 1951.[6][1] In 1953 he was president of the Rumson Improvement Association.[7] In 1959 he became the director of new business and public relations at H.A. Caesar & Company.[8]
In 1966 he left H.A. Caesar & Company to join the Textile Banking Company.[9] He was president of the Textile Banking Company from 1966 until 1968.[10] He then became an executive of the Iselin-Jefferson Financial Company, a subsidiary of Dan River Mills.[11] He was president of the Textile Banking Company, a vice president and director of the Iselin-Jefferson Financial Company, and a general partner in H. A. Caesar & Company, a factoring business in Manhattan. He was executive vice president and manager of marketing at J. P. Maguire.[1]