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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: December 2, 2015
Caption: Richard Cutts
Additional Description: This c. 1804-5 portrait of Richard Cutts (June 28, 1771 – April 7, 1845) by Gilbert Stuart Hangs in the Virginia Historical Society Museum in Richmond, Virginia.

Richard Cutts lost his seat in Congress after he reluctantly voted for war with Britain in 1812. In 1820 when he was serving as the Comptroller of the Treasury, he built this house on the northwest corner of Lafayette Square and lived in it with is wife Anna Payne Cutts, Dolley Madison's sister. Later when the Cutts fell into financial difficulty the house came to be the property of the Cutts' brother- and sister-in-law James and Dolley Madison.
Submitted: August 21, 2016, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p360315
File Size: 1.490 Megabytes

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