Alfred Cuthbert

Alfred Cuthbert (December 23, 1785 – July 9, 1856) was a United States Representative and Senator from Georgia.

Life and career

Cuthbert was born in Savannah. He was instructed by private tutors and graduated from Princeton College in 1803. He studied law and was admitted to the state bar about 1805 but did not practice.

In 1809, he was captain of a company of volunteer infantry, and was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1810 to 1813. Cuthbert was elected as a Democratic-Republican Representative to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William W. Bibb, and was reelected to the Fourteenth Congress and served from December 13, 1813, to November 9, 1816, when he resigned. He was a member of the Georgia Senate from 1817 to 1819, and was elected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1821 to March 3, 1827.

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1826, but was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Forsyth; he was reelected in 1837, and served from January 12, 1835, to March 3, 1843. Cuthbert was not a candidate for reelection in 1843, and retired from active business pursuits and lived on his estate near Monticello in Jasper County until his death in 1856; interment was in Summerville Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia.

External links

• Alfred Cuthbert at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by William Wyatt Bibb	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's at-large congressional district December 13, 1813 – November 9, 1816	Succeeded by Zadock Cook
Preceded by Thomas W. Cobb	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's at-large congressional district March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1827	Succeeded by John Floyd
United States Senate
Preceded by John Forsyth	U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Georgia January 12, 1835 – March 3, 1843 Served alongside: John Pendleton King, Wilson Lumpkin, John M. Berrien	Succeeded by Walter T. Colquitt

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