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Rep. Richard Cutts

Former Representative for Massachusetts’s 14th District

Cutts was the representative for Massachusetts’s 14th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1811 to 1813.

He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1807 to 1811; the representative for Massachusetts’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1805 to 1807; the representative for Massachusetts’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1803 to 1805; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1801 to 1803.

Legislators who enslaved Black people

Cutts was among more than 1,800 legislators who enslaved Black people. The Washington Post compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents. Cutts was one of them.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1801 to Mar 1813, Cutts missed 379 of 1,274 roll call votes, which is 29.7%. This is much worse than the median of 18.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1813. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

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