John Tinney McCutcheon (1870-1949) was an American newspaper political cartoonist. He graduated from Purdue University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, in 1889 with a Bachelor of Science degree. At Purdue, he worked with typographer Bruce Rogers on the student newspaper and yearbook. There is now a dormitory at Purdue University and McCutcheon High School, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, was named in his honour. He worked at the Chicago Morning News (later called the Chicago Record) and then at the Chicago Tribune from 1903 until his retirement in 1946. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Cartoons in 1932. His works include: Cartoons: A Selection of One Hundred Drawings (1903), Bird Center Cartoons: A Chronicle of Social Happenings at Bird Center Illinois (1904), The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons (1905), Injun Summer (1907), T.R. in Cartoons (1910) and Drawn from Memory: The Autobiography of John T. McCutcheon (1950).