John T. Cutting

John Tyler Cutting ( born September 7, 1844 in Westport, Essex County, New York, † November 24, 1911 in Toronto, Canada ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Cutting was ten years old an orphan. In the years 1855-1860 he lived in the states of Wisconsin and Illinois, where he attended the public schools. He also was working on a farm and as a commercial clerk. During the Civil War he served in Taylor 's Chicago Battery, which belonged to the army of the Union. In 1877 Cutting moved to California, where he worked in the fruit trade, among others. He became a member of the National Guard and co-founder of the California coast guard in his new home. Later he became a brigadier general in this unit. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Cutting the fourth electoral district of California was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William W. Morrow on March 4, 1891. Since he resigned in 1892 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only a legislative sessions in Congress until March 3, 1893. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Cutting settled in New York City, where he became interested in the emerging automobile industry. In 1907 he moved to his birthplace, Westport. He died on November 24, 1911 during a trip to Canada and was buried in Westport.

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