Mac McCutcheon

Chester Mac McCutcheon
66th Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office  August 15, 2016
Preceded by	Victor Gaston (interim following the resignation of Mike Hubbard)
Alabama State Representative for District 25 (Limestone and Madison counties)
In office November 8, 2006 –
Preceded by	Ray Garner
Succeeded by
Born	July 15,  1952 Madison County, Alabama, USA
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Debora Kennedy McCutcheon
Children	Christopher N. McCutcheon April Nicole McCutheon
Residence	Athens Madison County
Alma mater	John Sparkman High School Trinity University in Texas
Occupation	Farmer pastor police officer
Religion	Church of God

Chester C. McCutcheon, known as Mac McCutcheon (born July 15, 1952), is the current Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, a Republican who was first elected to the state legislature in 2006. He represents District 25 in Limestone and Madison counties in northern Alabama and resides in Athens in Madison County.

McCutcheon graduated in 1970 from John  Sparkman High School, named for John Sparkman, a long-term Democratic U.S. Senator from Alabama in Harvest in Madison County, but the school was then located in nearby Toney. He holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He was a police officer in Huntsville prior to his election to the legislature. He has also farmed and is a member of the College Park Church of God in Huntsville. He has also been a pastor, dates unspecified.

In his first victory in 2006 and in his reelections of 2010 and 2014, McCutcheon ran without opposition in the general election.

In 2013, Representative McCutcheon voted to establish medical regulation for abortuaries in Alabama. In 2014, he voted to prohibit abortion after the detection of the heartbeat of the unborn child. He voted for the display of the Ten Commandments on state property, a measure which passed the House, 77-19. He voted to require drug testing for certain recipients of the public welfare program. In 2015, he backed legislation affirming the use of electrocution in executions. He voted against the requirement that animal shelters to compile monthly reports, a bill which failed in the House, 28-67. He voted to establish public charter schools in Alabama, a measure which passed the House, 58-41. He voted to permit the home schooled to participate in public school athletic events, a measured approved by the full House, 52-43. He supported the increase the cigarette tax, which passed the House, 52-46. 

In 2016, McCutcheon voted to forbid the sale of fetal tissue or to permit its use in research, and he opposed dilation abortions in Alabama. He voted for additional funding for new prison facilities, a measure which passed the House, 52-33. In 2017, he voted to authorize midwives to practice in his state, a measure which won House approval, 84-11. He voted to reduce the time for appeals from inmates on death row. He voted for the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act, authored by Mack Butler, which prohibits the alteration or removal of historic Confederate monuments, which passed the House 72-29. McCutcheon voted to prohibit judicial override of sentencing guidelines, a measure approved by the House, 78-19.

In August 2017, Senator Arthur Orr, a Decatur Republican, announced that he will introduced a bill in 2018, an election year, to permit county commissions to raise a local gasoline tax for specific road projects. Speaker McCutcheon said that while Orr's bill will be discussed, he noted that similar legislation has died in past sessions, and passage would be unlikely because, "in an election year, the reality of getting legislators to vote for any type of revenue measure will be tough."