Otis Henderson Cutler (May 15, 1866 – March 4, 1922) was an American businessman and politician from New York.

Life

Cutler was born on May 15, 1866, in

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, the son of Captain Otis Nelson Cutler and Mary Caroline Frye Tebbets. His mother was a cousin of William P. Frye. Cutler attended public school in Suffern and went to Rockland College. Upon his father's death in 1883, he moved to

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, and became private secretary to his relative Senator Frye. He later became clerk of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce. He returned to Suffern in 1892 and became secretary to several mining and construction companies in New York City. In 1893, he was elected to the

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as a Republican over, representing

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. He defeated the Democratic incumbent Thomas Finegan. He served in the Assembly in

1894 Events January * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States. * Ja ...

(when he introduced bills to protect the rights of policyholders in insurance companies, extend the time when insurance companies have to pay for the support of the exempt firemen's benevolent fund, and in regard to the instruction of the blind),

1895 Events January * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of tr ...

(when he was chairman of the Committee on Internal Affairs), and

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(when he was chairman of the Committee on Taxation and Retrenchment). He was a delegate to the

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15 ...

and

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s and a

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in the

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and 1920 presidential elections. Cutler declined a renomination in the Assembly to the accept a position at the Ramapo Iron Works in Hillburn. He then organized the Ramapo Foundry Co. of

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, which was then merged with the American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co. He was secretary of the North River Bridge Company from 1895 to 1900 and manager of the Ramapo Foundry Company. In 1902, he became vice-president and general manager of the American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co. He then served as its president from 1903 to 1916, at which point he became chairman of its board of directors. During

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, he was manager of the insular and foreign division of the

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. He was a director of a number of large corporations, including the

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, the American Surety Company, the Liberty National Bank, Metropolitan Life Insurance, the

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, the Manganese Steel Rail Company, the Rail Joint and the Railway Steel Spring Company. Cutler attended the Episcopal Church. He was a member of the

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, the Union League Club, and the

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. He was married to Mary A. Straut. Cutler died of heart disease aboard the yacht ''Seramic'' in

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, on March 4, 1922. His body was sent back to Suffern and buried there.

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