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John Alfred Cuthbert (3 June 1788 – 22 September 1881) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-GA AL) from 4 March 1819 to 3 March 1821, succeeding Zadock Cook and preceding Edward Fenwick Tattnall.

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John Alfred Cuthbert was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1788, the brother of Alfred Cuthbert. He practiced law in Eatonton before serving in the state house, as a militia company leader during the War of 1812, in the US House of Representatives from 1819 to 1821, as commissioner to the Muscogee and Cherokee in 1822, in the state house and senate, as proprietor of the Federal Union in Milledgeville, as a lawyer in Mobile, as Mobile County judge from 1840 to 1852, as circuit court judge in 1852, and as a lawyer until his death in 1881.

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