Byron M. Cutcheon

Byron Mac Cutcheon ( born May 11, 1836 in Pembroke, New Hampshire, † April 12, 1908 in Ypsilanti, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1891 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After the early death of his parents Byron Cutcheon grew up as an orphan. As a child he worked in a cotton mill in order to finance his schooling can. He attended the common schools and the Pembroke Academy. He then worked in Pembroke for several years as a teacher before he moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1855. In 1857, he headed the Birmingham Academy in Oakland County. At the same time, he continued his own education continued with studies at the Ypsilanti Seminary and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. There, he graduated in 1861. In the years 1861 and 1862 he taught at the Ypsilanti High School classical languages.

During the Civil War Cutcheon was in 1862 an officer in the army of the Union. Until his retirement from the army in March 1865, he had brought it there until the colonel. For his services he was later (1891 ) by Congress, the Medal of Honor After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan and its made ​​in 1866 admitted to the bar he began in Ionia and work a year later in Manistee in his new profession. Politically Cutcheon member of the Republican Party. Between 1867 and 1883 he was a member of the Railway Control of the State of Michigan. From 1870 to 1873 he was the legal representative of the community Manistee and in 1873 he was prosecutor in Manistee County. This office he held until 1874. Moreover, he was in the years 1875 to 1881 Board Member of the University of Michigan. In his former residence Manistee he held from 1877 to 1883 the office of postmaster.

In the congressional elections of 1882 he was in the ninth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jay Abel Hubbell on March 4, 1883. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 four legislative sessions. From 1889 to 1891 he was Chairman of the Military Committee. In 1890 Cutcheon defeated by Democrat Harrison H. Wheeler. Between 1891 and 1895 he was a civilian member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, a Military Committee, which dealt among other things with fixings. In 1895 to 1897, he also wrote some articles for newspapers in Detroit. Otherwise, he worked as a lawyer in Grand Rapids. Byron Cutcheon died on April 12, 1908 in Ypsilanti. He was married in 1863 to Marie A. Warner, with whom he had five children.