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In 2007 he participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program organised by the US State Department and was made an honorary Colonel of Kentucky.
In 2013, He was honored by the states of Kentucky and Tennessee for his contribution to early Rock and Roll music when Governor Steven Beshear commissioned him Kentucky Colonel and Governor Bill Haslam commissioned him Tennessee Colonel Aide De Camp.
Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown, Jr. commissioned Cummins a Kentucky Colonel in honor of his publications dealing with the history of the Mississippi Valley.
The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in the American Association throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891, first as the Louisville Eclipse (1882–1884) and later as the Louisville Colonels (1885–1891), the latter name derived from the historic Kentucky colonels.
They have been declared Kentucky Colonels, Arkansas Travelers, and they have had many special days set aside in their honor.
Before a capacity crowd of 24,000, he received the designation of "Kentucky Colonel" from Governor Ernie Fletcher, the highest honor a native son of the State of Kentucky can receive.
He was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by Gov. Paul E. Patton in 1996, elected a member of the Philadelphia Society in 2002, and elected to the board of directors of the American Conservative Union in 2007.