Cuthbert, Alfred
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born about 1781, in Savannah, Ga. He was first elected to the state legislature, then a representative from Georgia in the thirteenth and fourteenth congresses, serving till 1816, when he resigned. He was again elected to the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth congresses, serving from 1821 till 1827.
He was elected United States senator from Georgia to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected for a full term, serving from 1835 till 1843. He died July 9, 1856, near Monticello, Ga.