Josh S. Cutler is State Representative for the Sixth Plymouth District in the Massachusetts Legislature. He currently serves as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development. He is House Chair of the Coastal Caucus, the Future of Work Commission and the UI Trust Fund Study Reform Commission, and co-founder of the Blockchain Technology Caucus.

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Josh is an attorney and former small business owner. Prior to his election, Josh worked as a newspaper editor and publisher for his third-generation family business. He is a graduate of Skidmore College (B.A. in political science), Suffolk University Law School (Juris Doctor) and UMass-Dartmouth (M.A. in Environmental Policy).

 

Josh served as an elected member of the Duxbury Planning Board and the Hull Board of Selectmen. He is a member of Board of Directors of the Duxbury Free Library, Inc., and the Hanson Kiwanis Foundation, and a former Board member of the Pembroke Chamber of Commerce. He also served on the Duxbury War Memorial Committee and the Duxbury Alternative Energy Committee.

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Josh enjoys local history and is the author of two books: The Boston Gentlemen’s Mob: Maria Chapman and the Abolition Riot of 1835, published by History Press in 2021; and Mobtown Massacre: Alexander Hanson and the Baltimore Newspaper War of 1812, published by History Press in 2019. He has also been published in the New England Journal of History and is a member of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981.