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Senate Years of Service: 1905-1917 Party: Republican
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SUTHERLAND, George, a Representative and a Senator from Utah; born in Buckinghamshire,
England, March 25, 1862; immigrated to the United States in 1863 with his
parents, and settled in Springville, Utah County, Utah; received a
common-school education; miner; studied law at the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor; admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced practice in Provo, Utah;
unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Provo in 1890; unsuccessful candidate for
Territorial representative in Congress in 1892; member, State senate 1897-1901;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3,
1903); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1902; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate in 1904; reelected in 1910 and served
from March 4, 1905, to March 3, 1917; unsuccessful candidate for reelection;
chairman, Committee on Cuban Relations (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Expenditures
in the Department of Justice (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses);
president of the American Bar Association 1916-1917; appointed by President
Warren Harding in September 1922 an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States; entered upon the duties of that office in October 1922 and
served until his retirement on January 18, 1938; died in Stockbridge, Mass.,
July 18, 1942; interment in the Abbey Mausoleum, Arlington, Va.; remains
subsequently moved to Cedar Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Arkes, Hadley.
The Return of George Sutherland: Restoring a Jurisprudence of Natural
Rights. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994; Sutherland,
George.
Constitutional Power and World Affairs. 1919. Reprint. New
York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970.
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