Luther Stearns Cushing (June 22, 1803June 22, 1856) was an American jurist. He was born on June 22, 1803, in

Lunenburg, Massachusetts Lunenburg is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,946 at the 2020 census. History Lunenburg was first settled by Europeans in 1718 and was officially incorporated in 1728. The name stems from one of t ...

, and died on June 22, 1856, in

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

. Cushing wrote one of the earliest works on

parliamentary procedure Parliamentary procedure is the accepted rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings of an assembly or organization. Its object is to allow orderly deliberation upon questions of interest to the organization and thus to arrive at the sense or t ...

, ''Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies'', commonly known as ''Cushing's Manual''. The first edition was published in 1845.Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 7th Edition (1848), p.3 It was frequently revised by Cushing and . Afterwards, others continued to revise the manual periodically.

Notable later editions

*Allison, William L. ''Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice'' (1886) *Sullivan, Frances P. ''Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice'' (1887, 1905) *Baker, James Freeman. ''Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice'' (1890) *Ingalls, John James, ''Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice'' (1895) *Bolles, Albert S. ''Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice'' (1901, with printings thru 1935) *Bolles, Albert S. ''Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice with Rules of Procedure in Business Corporations'' (1901, 1914) *Gaines, Charles Kelsey, ''The New Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice'' (1912) *Lowe, Paul E. ''Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice'' (1925) *Cushing, Luther S. ''Modern Rules of Order'' (1964)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cushing, Luther 1803 births 1856 deaths Parliamentary authority People from Lunenburg, Massachusetts