Bronson M. Cutting

Bronson Murray Cutting ( born June 23, 1888 in Great River, Suffolk County, New York, † May 6, 1935 in Atlanta, Missouri ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of New Mexico in the U.S. Senate.

Career

Born on Long Iceland Bronson Cutting first attended the public schools, and later the Groton School, a private school in Massachusetts. In 1910 he graduated from Harvard University. A little later he moved on medical advice to New Mexico, where he struck a career as a newspaper editor. He was responsible for the Santa Fe New Mexican and El Nuevo Mexicano. From 1912 to 1918 he was president of the New Mexican Printing Company; the newspaper publishers association of New Mexico, he stood in front of 1920 until his death.

During the First World War, Cutting was appointed to the rank of Captain and used as assistant military attache of the American Embassy in London. In 1920 he was a lecturer at the Military Institute of New Mexico; as chairman of the body responsible for the state penitentiary of New Mexico authority he acted in 1925.

Policy

After the death of U.S. Senator Andrieus A. Jones on December 20, 1927 Bronson Cutting was appointed nine days later his successor in Congress. He remained there until December 6, 1928, did not occur to the election, which decided Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo for themselves. Since this but again decided not to re-election, be re- applied Cutting to the Senate seat and won the election, so he returned to the Senate already on 4 March 1929. The re-election for the Republicans in the otherwise less successful 1934, he decided just to Democrat Dennis Chavez for themselves. He made a name for himself by before the start of the New Deal, he tried to involve the population of Hispanics in political events.

He was one of the initiators of the Hare - Hawes -Cutting Independence Act, according to which the Philippines for ten years a Commonwealth status should be awarded, the independence to follow. In spite of the veto of President Herbert Hoover, the law was passed by Congress; However, the legislature of the Philippines refused to recognize. It was not until some years later, the Tydings - McDuffie Act similarly formulated was successful.

Bronson Cutting died on May 6 in a 1935 plane crash near Atlanta in Missouri. He was on his way back from Albuquerque to Washington. His successor in the Senate of the previously unsuccessful in against him Dennis Chavez was determined. Cutting was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.