Cutting, a Republican senator from New Mexico, was a co-author of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Bill of 1933. He was a severe critic of the Hoover administration. The Senator from New Mexico was born in Oakdale, New York, on June 23, 1888 to William Bayard Cutting and Olivia Peyteon Murray. His great-great grandfather was emigrant from England in 1750. He entered Harvard University in 1906 and was a member of class 1910, but had to leave before graduation because of tuberculosis. He went to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and there established his residence and engaged in the commercial, cultural and political activities of the new state. In 1912, he acquired a controlling interest in the New Mexico Printing Company and became the president and publisher of its periodicals: the Santa Fe New Mexican, New Mexican Review and El Nuevo Mexicano. Before his political career, he served in the army. He was a Colonel in the New Mexico National Guard before World War I; Captain of infantry in 1917. He likewise served briefly in the intelligence section in Washington, D.C. and in the American embassy in London as military attache until 1919. He was awarded a British military cross. In 1928 he was elected to the Senate although he had been serving there for a year as an appointee to a vacancy. He served as a member of the committees on military affairs, public lands and surveys, and territorial and insular affairs. He was a champion of popular rights. He cooperated actively with Pres. F.D. Roosevelt. In 1934, in line with the President''s New Deal program, he introduced a bill creating a federal monetary authority in the Treasury department to take over all federal banks. His bid for reelection in 1934 was not favored by his partymen. On May 6, 1935, on his way to Washington, D.C. from Santa Fe, he died in an airplane crash in Atlanta, Missouri, He never married.