Marsena E. Cutts

Marsena Edgar Cutts ( May 22nd 1833 in Orwell, Addison County, Vermont; † September 1, 1883 in Oskaloosa, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Marsena Cutts attended the public schools of his home and then the St. Lawrence Academy in Potsdam (New York). In 1853 he moved to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, where he spent two years working as a teacher. After studying law and its made ​​in 1855 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Montezuma (Iowa). In 1857 and 1858 he was district attorney in Poweshiek County.

Cutts was a member of the Republican Party. In 1861 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa; 1864-1866 he was a member of the State Senate. Then he was again in the years 1870 to 1872 deputy in the House of Representatives from Iowa, before he became Attorney General of the State. This post he held 1872-1877.

1880 Cutts was in the sixth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1881 the successor of James B. Weaver. However, he had a choice only by a margin of 106 votes against John C. Cook, the joint candidate of the Democratic Party and the Greenback Party, won. Cook appealed against the election result a contradiction. In the meantime, Curtis exercised its mandate in Congress. The Congress decided shortly before the end of the legislative session on the election protest in favor of Cook. This could then replace on March 3, 1883, the last day of the session, Cutts. Since this had been but re-elected in the elections of 1882, he was already on March 4, 1883, just one day later, to take over his old mandate and exercise again until September 1, 1883, when he succumbed to tuberculosis disease. The overdue election then won Cook, who finished the opened legislature until March 3, 1885.