Alonzo Hubert Tuttle (August 30, 1872 – November 23, 1940) was an American legal scholar and politician.
Alonzo Tuttle was born in Decatur, Illinois, on August 30, 1872, to parents Charles A. and Henrietta.[1] He graduated from Decatur High School in his hometown, then earned a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Michigan.[1] He then taught within Ohio State University's department of political science while pursuing a doctorate in law at the Moritz College of Law.[1] In 1908, Tuttle formally joined the Moritz faculty.[2] In the 1910s,[3] he served a single term on the Ohio Senate.[2] During World War I, Tuttle served in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps.[2] As a legal academic, Tuttle specialized in constitutional law,[2] and was secretary of Moritz Law before serving as acting dean from 1926 to 1928.[2] Illness forced him to step down as dean,[4] and later reduced his course load,[2] but Tuttle did not formally retire from his professorship until the summer of 1940.[2] He died on November 23, 1940, in Columbus, Ohio.[1][2] Tuttle's former students commissioned a portrait of him, and donated the work to Moritz's Law Library.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "[Obituary]". Decatur Herald. November 25, 1940.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Alonzo H. Tuttle". Ohio State Law Journal. 7 (1). December 1940. hdl:1811/72354.
- ^ Journal of the Senate of the State of Ohio. Ohio Senate. May 10, 1910. p. 647.
- ^ "College of Law Deans". Moritz College of Law. Retrieved July 2, 2024.
- ^ "Portraits of Distinguished Alumni on display in the Moritz Law Library". Moritz College of Law. Retrieved July 2, 2024.