John T. McCutcheon
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John Tinney McCutcheon (May 6, 1870-June 10, 1949) was an American newspaper political cartoonist. McCutcheon was born near South Raub, Tippecanoe_County,_Indiana to Captain John Barr McCutcheon and Clara Glick McCutcheon. He graduated from Purdue_University in 1889 with a Bachelor of Science degree.
He worked at the Chicago Morning News later called the Chicago Record and then at the Chicago_Tribune from 1903 until his retirement in 1946. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Cartoons in 1931. Often called the "Dean of American Cartoonists", McCutcheon died June 10, 1949 in Lake_Forest,_Illinois.
Works
- Cartoons: A Selection of One Hundred Drawings (1903) - with introduction by George Ade
- The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons (1905)
- Injun Summer (1907)
- T.R. in Cartoons (1910)
