sentences:  Cutler was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1874, serving from 1875 to 1879; he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1878.He served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture from 1877 to 1879.Afterward, he resumed practicing law in Morristown, New Jersey and was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1880 and 1896.