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]