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{{short description|American politician}}

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|name = Roderick Dhu Sutherland

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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|4|27}}

|birth_place = [[Scotch Grove, Iowa]], US

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|10|18|1862|4|27}}

|death_place = [[Kansas City, Kansas]], US

|party = [[People's Party (United States)|Populist]]

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'''Roderick Dhu Sutherland''' (April 27, 1862 – October 18, 1915) was an American [[People's Party (United States)|Populist Party]] politician.

Sutherland was born in [[Scotch Grove, Iowa]], and attended [[Amity College (Iowa)|Amity College]], in [[College Springs, Iowa]]. He taught school and studied law, being admitted to the [[bar (law)|bar]] in 1888. He set up practice in [[Nelson, Nebraska]], becoming the prosecuting attorney of [[Nuckolls County, Nebraska|Nuckolls County]] 1890 until 1896.

Sutherland served as the chairman of the Populist state convention in Nebraska in 1899. He then was appointed by governor [[William A. Poynter]] as a delegate to the trust conference held in [[Chicago, Illinois|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 in November 1900. He was a delegate to the Populist National Convention and a delegate to the [[1900 Democratic National Convention]] and the [[1908 Democratic National Convention]].

After his Congressional service, Sutherland resumed practice of law in Nelson, and died in [[Kansas City, Kansas]], in 1915. His remains were interred in Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, Nebraska.

He was married to Ana Marie Laramor.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14156181/ana-marie-sutherland</ref>

==References==

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# {{cite web |website=[[The Political Graveyard]] |title=Sutherland, Roderick Dhu |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumners-sutliff.html#R9M0JEHUS |accessdateaccess-date=January 15, 2006 }}

# {{cite web |work=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]] |title=Sutherland, Roderick Dhu |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001085 |accessdateaccess-date=January 15, 2006 }}

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