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Northcutt, William A

lawyer, lieutenant-governor, was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He taught school for a while, and was admitted to the bar in 1887. Two years later he moved to Illinois; in 1882 was elected state's attorney of Bond county, and was re-elected in 1884 and in 1888. In 1890 he was elected head consul of the Modern Woodmen of America, to which position he has been twice unanimously re-elected. In 1892 he was a republican candidate for congress, and in 1896 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Illinois.