R. Ammi Cutter
American judge
About R. Ammi Cutter
Lived 1902 – 1993 (aged 91).
Richard Ammi Cutter (May 11, 1902 – November 28, 1993) was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1956 to 1972. He was appointed by Governor Christian Herter.
Cutter was born in Salem, Massachusetts and attended Noble and Greenough School. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. Cutter entered private practice after graduating from law school in 1925, until he became the assistant attorney general for Massachusetts in 1927. During World War II, he reached the rank of major in the United States Army. He would stay in private practice after the war until being appointed to the state Supreme Court in 1956.
He was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers from 1966 to 1972.
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American judge (1902–1993)
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R. Ammi Cutter was born on 11 May 1902.
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R. Ammi Cutter died on 28 November 1993.
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