Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson (August 7, 1855 in
Washington Township, New Jersey – June 25, 1932 in
Trenton, New Jersey
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) was an American businessman and
Republican Party politician who represented for four terms from 1915 to 1923.
Biography
Hutchinson was born in the
Windsor
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section of what is now
Robbinsville Township, New Jersey
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on August 7, 1855. He attended the public schools and Riders Business College in
Trenton, New Jersey
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. He became a merchant miller in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey and was interested in banking and in the manufacture of fertilizer.
Early political career
He served as township clerk for three years. Hutchinson was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1895 and 1896, and served in the New Jersey Senate from 1899 to 1904, and was president of that body in 1903. He served as state road commissioner from 1905 to 1908.
Congress
Hutchinson was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving in Congress from March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1923, but was unsuccessful in his bid for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.
Death and burial
He resided in Trenton, until his death there on June 25, 1932. Hutchinson was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Hamilton Township.
Legacy
Although the mill he owned is no longer in existence, the neighborhood of Hamilton Township where it stood is known as Hutchinson Mills, New Jersey.
Hutchinson was a founding member and elder o
Christ Presbyterian Church(founded 1920; building dedicated 1924), located in the Hutchinson Mills section of Hamilton Township. At the focal point of the church's worship space is a historic stained-glass window depicting the resurrection scene from Mark 16 (Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome confronted by an angel pointing at the empty tomb), dedicated in memory of his late wife. Several other stained glass windows bear dedications by "Mrs. E.C. Hutchinson" and one is in the name of Stanley Hutchinson, in memory of his mother.
References
External links
The Political Graveyard
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1855 births
1932 deaths
Republican Party members of the New Jersey General Assembly
Republican Party New Jersey state senators
People from Robbinsville Township, New Jersey
Politicians from Trenton, New Jersey
Presidents of the New Jersey Senate
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
20th-century members of the New Jersey Legislature
20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
19th-century members of the New Jersey Legislature