Roderick Dhu Sutherland

Roderick Dhu Sutherland (born April 27, 1862 in Scotch Grove , Jones County , Iowa , † October 18, 1915 in Kansas City , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1901 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Roderick Sutherland attended public schools in his home country and then Amity College . After that he worked temporarily as a teacher. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1888, he began working in Nelson , Nebraska, in his new profession. Between 1890 and 1896, Sutherland was a district attorney in Nuckolls County . At that time he was a member of the short-lived populist party . In 1899 he headed their convention in Nebraska. In 1896 Sutherland was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he succeeded William E. Andrews on March 4, 1897 . After re-election in 1898, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1901 . In the elections of 1900 he was defeated by Ashton C. Shallenberger .

In 1900 Sutherland was initially a delegate at the federal party congress of the Populist Party. Soon afterwards he became a member of the Democratic Party , whose Democratic National Conventions he attended as a delegate in 1900 and 1908. Otherwise he worked again as a lawyer. Roderick Sutherland died in Kansas City on October 18, 1915.

Web links

• Roderick Dhu Sutherland in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Roderick Dhu Sutherland in the database of Find a Grave (English)