John T. McCutcheon
United States, 1870 - 1949
John Tinney McCutcheon (b. May 6, 1870, near South Raub, Tippecanoe County, Indiana-d. June 10, 1949, Lake Forest, Illinois) was a cartoonist. He received a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana in 1889. That same year he moved to Chicago, Illinois and began his long career as a newspaper cartoonist. McCutcheon worked for the Chicago Record from 1889 to 1901, the Chicago Record-Herald from 1901 to 1903, and the Chicago Tribune as the chief cartoonist from 1903 until his retirement in 1945. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons in 1931.
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