He was the owner of a bookstore and the editor of the Forked Deer Blade newspaper in Jackson, Tennessee.

He was a U.S. consul to Mexico, and an agent for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

[1] During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he served in the Confederate States Army.

[3] Cisco was appointed as a consul to Mexico by President Grover Cleveland in 1888.

[1] Cisco married Mildred George Pursley;[3] they had four sons and two daughters.