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Senate Years of Service: 1927-1928; 1929-1935 Party: Republican; Republican
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CUTTING, Bronson Murray, a Senator from New Mexico; born in Oakdale, Long Island, N.Y., June
23, 1888; attended the common schools and Groton (Mass.) School; graduated from
Harvard University in 1910; becoming an invalid he moved to Santa Fe, N.Mex.,
in 1910 to restore his health; became a newspaper publisher in 1912 and
published the Santa Fe New Mexican and El Nuevo Mexicano; served as president
of the New Mexican Printing Co. 1912-1918, and of the Santa Fe New Mexican
Publishing Corp. from 1920 until his death; during the First World War was
commissioned captain and served as an assistant military attache of the
American Embassy at London 1917-1918; regent of New Mexico Military Institute
in 1920; served as chairman of the board of commissioners of the New Mexican
State Penitentiary in 1925; appointed on December 29, 1927, as a Republican to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrieus A.
Jones and served from December 29, 1927, until December 6, 1928, when a duly
elected successor qualified; was not a candidate for election to this vacancy;
elected as a Republican on November 6,1928, to the United States Senate;
reelected in 1934 and served from March 4, 1929, until his death in an airplane
crash near Atlanta, Mo., on May 6, 1935; interment in Greenwood Cemetery,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Pickens, William. Bronson
Cutting vs. Dennis Chavez: Battle of the Patrones in New Mexico, 1934.
New Mexico Historical Journal 46 (January 1971): 5-36; Lowitt,
Richard.
Bronson M. Cutting: Progressive Politician. Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
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