William Cullom (June 4, 1810 – December 6, 1896) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives.
Cullom was appointed the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives in the Thirty-fourth Congress, and he served from February 4, 1856, to December 6, 1857.
During the debate on secession, Cullom stumped Tennessee in favor of remaining in the Union but when Tennessee finally seceded, he grudgingly supported the decision but retired to his home at Carthage and did not take a prominent role supporting either side.
[citation needed] After the war, he was divorced from his first wife, Virginia Ingram Cullom, and remarried to Mary Griffin.
[3] Cullom died in Clinton, Tennessee on December 6, 1896 (age 86 years, 185 days).