Nathan Cutler

Nathan Cutler, around 1850

Nathan Cutler (born May 29, 1775 in Lexington , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † June 8, 1861 ) was an American politician ( Democratic Republican Party ) and from 1829 to 1830 governor of Maine .

Early years

Nathan Cutler attended Leicester Academy and Dartmouth College . There he graduated in 1798. After a subsequent law degree, he was admitted to the bar in 1801, whereupon he began to practice in Farmington.

Political career

He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1809 to 1811 and again in 1819 . He was also a delegate to the Maine Constituent Assembly in 1819. In 1828 he served as President of the Maine Senate . When the incumbent Governor Enoch Lincoln died in office on October 8, 1829, the constitution stipulated that the Senate President had to end his term as governor. Thus Cutler was governor of Maine between October 1829 and January 6, 1830. In this short time he was unable to set any political accents. After his governorship ended, Cutler was an elector in the presidential election of 1832. In 1844, he was a member of the Maine State House of Representatives. Nathan Cutler died very old in 1861. He was married to Hannah Moore, with whom he had nine children.

literature

• Robert Sobel, John Raimo (Eds.): Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789–1978. Volume 2, Meckler Books, Westport 1978.

Web links

• Nathan Cutler in the National Governors Association (English)
• The governors of Maine (English)
• Nathan Cutler in the database of Find a Grave (English)