Bronson M. Cutting

Bronson M. Cutting

Bronson Murray Cutting (* 23. June 1888 in Great River , Suffolk County , New York ; †  6. May 1935 in Atlanta , Missouri ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ), of the state of New Mexico in the US Senate took .

Professional career

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

During the First World War , Cutting was appointed to the rank of captain and was appointed deputy military attaché at the American embassy in London . In 1920 he was a lecturer at the New Mexico Military Institute; he served as the chairman of the agency responsible for the New Mexico State Prison in 1925.

politics

After the death of US Senator Andrieus A. Jones on December 20, 1927, Bronson Cutting was appointed as his successor in Congress nine days later . He stayed there until December 6, 1928 and did not run for the by-election, which Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo won. But since the latter renounced the re-election, Cutting applied again for the Senate seat and won the election, so that he returned to the Senate on March 4, 1929. He also narrowly won re-election in the otherwise unsuccessful year for the Republicans in 1934 against the Democrat Dennis Chavez . He made a name for himself by trying to involve the Hispanics more closely in political events before the New Deal began .

He was one of the initiators of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Independence Act , according to which the Philippines should be given Commonwealth status for ten years , which should be followed by independence. Despite President Herbert Hoover's veto , the bill was passed by Congress; however, the legislature of the Philippines refused to recognize it. It was not until a few years later that the similarly worded Tydings-McDuffie Act was successful.

Bronson Cutting died on May 6, 1935 in a plane crash near Atlanta, Missouri. He was on the way from Albuquerque back to Washington, DC Dennis Chavez, who had lost to him the previous year, was appointed as his successor in the Senate. Cutting was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery , Brooklyn .

Web links

• Bronson M. Cutting in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)