Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings (May 21, 1831 – April 16, 1909) was a lawyer, Civil War officer, editor and publisher, and one-term Republican Congressman from Iowa's 7th congressional district. Born in Newton, New Jersey, Cummings attended public schools in Muncy, Pennsylvania as a child. He was editor of a newspaper in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in 1850, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855. He moved to Winterset, Iowa in 1856 and served as prosecuting attorney for Madison County, Iowa from 1856 to 1858.