Roderick Dhu Sutherland

Roderick Dhu Sutherland (* 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 electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Roderick Sutherland attended the public schools of his home and then the Amity College. He then worked intermittently as a teacher. After studying law and its made ​​in 1888 admitted to the bar he started in Nelson in Nebraska to work in his new profession. Between 1890 and 1896, Sutherland was district attorney in Nuckolls County. At that time he was one of the short-lived Populist Party on. In 1899, he led the Party in Nebraska. 1896 Sutherland was then elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of William E. Andrews on March 4, 1897. After a re-election in 1898 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1901 two legislative sessions. But with the elections of 1900 he was defeated Ashton C. Shallenberger.

In 1900, Sutherland was first delegate to the national convention of the Populist Party. Soon after, he became a member of the Democratic Party, whose Democratic National Convention he attended as a delegate in the years 1900 and 1908. Otherwise, he again worked as a lawyer. Roderick Sutherland died in 1915 in Kansas City.