Roderick D. Sutherland

Roderick Dhu Sutherland (b. 1862-d. 1915) was a Nebraska Populist politician.

Born in Scotch Grove, Iowa on April 27, 1862, he attended Amity College, College Springs, Iowa. He taught school and studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1888. He set up practive in Nelson, Nebraska, becoming the prosecuting attorney of Nuckolls County 1890 until 1896.

He served as the chariman of the Populist State convention in Nebraska in1899. He then was appointed by governor William A. Poynter as a delegate to the trust conference held in Chicago in September 1899. He was elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901), but failed at being reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress. He was a delegate to the Populist National Convention and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1900, and one to the 1908 Democratic National Convention.

He resumed practice of law in Nelson, and died in Kansas City, Kansas on October 18, 1915; interned in Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, Nebraska .

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References

1. "The Political Graveyard". Sutherland, Roderick Dhu. January 15. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
2. "Congressional Bioguide". Sutherland, Roderick Dhu. January 15. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)

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