Byron M. Cutcheon

Byron M. Cutcheon (1906)

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 US 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 to finance his school education. He attended public schools in his home country and the Pembroke Academy . He then worked as a teacher in Pembroke for a few years before moving to Ypsilanti in Michigan in 1855. In 1857 he directed the Birmingham Academy in Oakland County . At the same time he continued his own education with studies at Ypsilanti Seminary and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor . There he graduated in 1861. In 1861 and 1862 he taught classical languages at Ypsilanti High School .

During the Civil War , Cutcheon was an officer in the Union Army from 1862 . By the time he left the army in March 1865, he had made it to the position of colonel. For his services he later received the Medal of Honor from Congress (1891) . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan and his admission to the bar in 1866, he began to work in his new profession in Ionia and a year later in Manistee . Politically, Cutcheon was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1867 and 1883 he was a member of the Michigan State Railroad Control Committee. From 1870 to 1873 he was the legal representative for the Manistee Township and in 1873 he became a prosecutor in Manistee County . He held this office until 1874. He was also a board member of the University of Michigan from 1875 to 1881. In Manistee, where he lived at the time, he held the post of postman from 1877 to 1883 .

In the congressional elections of 1882 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Jay Abel Hubbell on March 4, 1883 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1891 . From 1889 to 1891 he was chairman of the military committee. In 1890 Cutcheon was defeated by the Democrat Harrison H. Wheeler . Between 1891 and 1895 he was a civil member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications , a military committee that dealt with fortifications, among other things. In the years 1895 to 1897 he also wrote some articles for newspapers in Detroit . Otherwise he worked as a lawyer in Grand Rapids . Byron Cutcheon died in Ypsilanti on April 12, 1908. He had been married to Marie A. Warner since 1863, with whom he had five children.

Web links

• Byron M. Cutcheon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Byron M. Cutcheon in the database of Find a Grave (English)