McCutchen, Jesse M.

Flourished: Schuyler County, Illinois

Alternate name: McCutcheon

McCutchen was one of the earliest lawyers in Schuyler County, Illinois. From 1838 to 1840, he represented Schuyler County as a Whig in the Illinois House of Representatives. He gave up the law and politics for farming around 1846.

John Clayton, comp., The Illinois Fact Book and Historical Almanac, 1673-1968 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), 207; Theodore C. Pease, ed., Illinois Election Returns, 1818-1848, vol. 18 of Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1923), 323; Combined History of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois (Philadelphia: W. R. Brink, 1882), 150.