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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—UtahSUTHERLAND, George
(1862—1942)
Senate Years of Service:
1905-1917
Party:
Republican
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, who were Mormon converts, 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.
Bibliography
American 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.
Arkes, Hadley. The Return of George Sutherland: Restoring a Jurisprudence of Natural Rights
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Mason, Alpheus Thomas. “The Conservative World of Mr. Justice Sutherland, 1883-1910.” American Political Science Review
32 (June 1938): 443-77.
Paschal, Joel Francis. Mr. Justice Sutherland, a Man Against the State
. 1951. Reprint. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.
Sutherland, George. Constitutional Power and World Affairs
. 1919. Reprint. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970.
U.S. Supreme Court. Proceedings of the Bar and Officers of the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of George Sutherland, December 18, 1944.
Washington: 1944.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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