David Cuddy

{{Short description|American politician (born 1952)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{BLP sources|date=December 2016}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name =David Cuddy

|image =File:Preferred Portrait - David Cuddy.jpg

|caption =Cuddy in 2022

|order =

|state_house =Alaska

|district =7th

|term_start =January 3, 1981

|term_end =January 3, 1983

|alongside =Russ Meekins Jr., Donald Clocksin, Michael Beirne

|predecessor =Multi-member district

|successor =Mike Szymanski

|birth_date ={{Birth date and age|mf=y|1952|9|16}}

|birth_place=

|nationality=

|party =Republican

|spouse =

|residence =Anchorage, Alaska

|alma_mater =Duke University (BA)

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David Warren Cuddy (born September 16, 1952) is a businessman and Republican Party politician from the U.S. state of Alaska. He served a single term in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1981 to 1983.

David Warren Cuddy was born in Anchorage, Alaska to Daniel Hon "Dan" and Betty Jane "Betti" (née Puckett) Cuddy. He was named after his uncle (and Dan Cuddy's only sibling), who died in World War II in 1944. Growing up in Anchorage (where he has lived for most of his life), he graduated from West Anchorage High School in 1970, and went on to earn a B.A. in economics from Duke University in 1974.

Cuddy joined the business operated by his family, First National Bank of Anchorage (now called First National Bank Alaska) in 1972, working his way up from teller to loan officer, and eventually vice-president at the time he left the bank. Cuddy was elected to a single term in the Alaska House of Representatives in 1980. A combination of redistricting and pressure from Dick Randolph to defect to the Libertarian Party played heavily in his decision not to run for re-election. In 1996{{cite web|url=http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe1996/senate.htm#ALASKA |title=Federal Elections 96: 1996 U.S. Senate Results by State |website=Fec.gov |date= |accessdate=2016-12-08}} and 2008, Cuddy unsuccessfully challenged Ted Stevens in the Alaska Republican U.S. Senate primary.

Cuddy lists his occupation as an independent film producer. In 2001, he worked for a California-based entertainment firm as a business consultant to independent filmmakers, and left them in 2003. While acting as executive producer on the film Light in the Forest, he met Austin-based screenwriter Bonnie Orr, and in 2007 he began construction of a film studio in Austin, Texas.{{cite web|url=http://www.austin360.com/movies/content/movies/stories/2006/02/10moviestudio.html|title=Picture this: a film studio in Hays County|publisher=Austin 360|work=American-Statesman|date=February 25, 2007|accessdate=November 19, 2011|author=Miguel Liscano}}