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 (http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Chicago/InjunSummer/) (1907)
• T.R. in Cartoons (1910)

External links

• Purdue Libraries Special Collections (http://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/mccutcheon.html)
• Syracuse University Libraries (http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/guides/j/JohnTMcCutcheonPapers-Des.htm)