George Sutherland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Sutherland

Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States Senator, member of the United States House of Representatives

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1862

Place of Birth: Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1942

Profession: judge, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

George Alexander Sutherland (March 25, 1862 – July 18, 1942) was an English-born U.S.
jurist and politician.
One of four appointments to the Supreme Court by President Warren G.
Harding, he served as an Associate Justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court between 1922 and 1938.
As a member of the Republican Party, he also represented Utah in both houses of Congress. Born in Buckinghamshire, England, Sutherland and his family moved to Utah Territory in the 1860s.
After attending the University of Michigan Law School, Sutherland established a legal practice in Provo, Utah and won election to the Utah State Senate.
Sutherland won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1900 and to the United States Senate in 1905.
In Congress, Sutherland supported several progressive policies but generally aligned with the party's conservative wing.
He won re-election in 1911 but was defeated in the 1916 election by Democrat William H.
King. Harding successfully nominated Sutherland to the Supreme Court in 1922 to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Associate Justice John Hessin Clarke.
Sutherland made up part of the "Four Horsemen", a group of conservative justices that often voted to strike down New Deal legislation.
He retired from the Supreme Court in 1938, and was succeeded by Stanley Forman Reed.
Sutherland wrote the Court's majority opinion in cases such as Village of Euclid, Ohio v.
Ambler Realty Co., Powell v.
Alabama, and U.S.
v.
Curtiss-Wright Export Corp..