Thomas G. Hutt

Though the present House is one essentially of young men, it is, however, by no means lacking in that gravity, experience and maturity of judgment, which is looked for and more generally found in those of riper years.  Among those whose frosted hair and uniformly dignified deportment give character to the body, no one on the floor or in the less restrained associations of legislative life, enjoys in a greater degree the confidence and respect of all, and especially of his younger associates, than the member from Lincoln county.  A native of the Old Dominion, in which glorious commonwealth he was born in 1817, Mr. Hutt is peculiarly a gentleman of the old school, pleasant in address, easy and attractive in manners, possessed of a keen and ready perception, most excellent judgment and a scrupulous regard for the interests of his constituents, he may described, in much shorter phrase, as an agreeable gentleman, an efficient, laborious and conscientious legislator.  Seldom among the absentees, either from the House or the committee-room, he has discharged the duties that have devolved upon him with uniform fidelity and intelligence.  Though a Democrat of the strictest school, he has in no instance betrayed a forgetfulness of that courtesy due those who differ with him; and I am doing him but simple justice, I believe, in saying that he is quite as popular, personally and socially, on the Radical side of the chamber as with his own party friends and associates.  Mr. Hutt has been a resident of Missouri and of the county he at present represents for over thirty-four years, during which time he has made himself fully acquainted with their interests.  He is at present engaged in farming, although for a series of years he has discharged the duties of the office of clerk of the circuit court of Lincoln county.  In personal appearance he is about the average hight (sic), of robust physique, and open, intellectual and pleasant countenance.  His hair and whiskers, of which he has a bountiful growth, are almost as white as snow, making him a marked man as he sits at his desk surrounded by younger, but not more efficient or more active members.  He has been an efficient member of the Committees in Internal Improvements, Township Organization and County Boundaries.

Source:  Pratt, J. T.  Pen Pictures of the officers and members of the House of representatives of the twenty-sixth General Assembly of Missouri.  1872.  p. 52-53.