Marsena E. Cutts, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marsena E. Cutts

American politician

Date of Birth: 22-May-1833

Place of Birth: Orwell, Vermont, United States

Date of Death: 01-Sep-1883

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Marsena E. Cutts

  • Marsena Edgar Cutts (May 22, 1833 – September 1, 1883) was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and teacher from Iowa. Born in Orwell, Vermont, Cutts attended common schools in his native village and later attended St.
  • Lawrence Academy in Potsdam, New York.
  • He moved to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin in 1853 where he taught school for two years and studied law.
  • He moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1855, continued to study law and was admitted to the bar the same year, commencing practice in Montezuma, Iowa.
  • He was prosecuting attorney of Poweshiek County, Iowa in 1857 and 1858, was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in 1861 and served in the Iowa Senate from 1864 to 1866.
  • Cutts was again a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1870 to 1872 and was Attorney General of Iowa from 1872 to 1877. In 1880, Cutts ran as a Republican for the U.S.
  • House of Representatives for Iowa's 6th congressional district.
  • He won the Republican nomination, and the Democratic and Greenback parties united behind a single opponent, Democrat John C.
  • Cook.
  • After a very close general election, Iowa's State Board of Canvassers concluded that Cutts had won 106 more votes.
  • This enabled Cutts to be sworn in in 1881 and to initially serve as a congressman, as Cook pursued a contest of the election with the Republican-controlled U.S.
  • House in the 47th United States Congress.
  • A commissioner took evidence regarding the contest in Oskaloosa in the Spring of 1882, but the House Committee on Elections had not announced a decision by the date that the seat was again up for election in November 1882 (when Cutts undisputedly won a plurality of votes).
  • It was not until February 1883, in the waning days of Cutts' first term, that the Committee issued its recommendation - an 8-2 vote that Cook, not Cutts, won the 1880 election.
  • The House accepted this recommendation in time for Cutts to serve only a single day of the term, on March 3, 1883, and to collect his salary.In the 1882 election, the Democratic Party and the Greenback Party nominated separate candidates.
  • Cutts undisputedly won more votes than any other opponent, but the combined votes against him exceeded those in favor of him by over 5,000 votes.
  • Because Cutts undisputedly won the election, his term in the 48th United States Congress began the day after Cook's single day in the previous Congress.
  • However, his health had been poor.
  • He died of tuberculosis in Oskaloosa, Iowa on September 1, 1883.
  • He was interred in Forest Cemetery in Oskaloosa.

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