Donald Sutherland (politician)

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The Hon.
Donald Sutherland
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Oxford South
In office
1902–1908
Preceded by Angus McKay
Succeeded by Thomas Richard Mayberry
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Oxford South
In office
1911–1926
Preceded by Malcolm Smith Schell
Succeeded by Thomas Merritt Cayley
Senator for Oxford, Ontario
In office
July 20, 1935 – January 1, 1949
Appointed by R. B. Bennett
Personal details
Born April 8, 1863
Zorra Township, Canada West
Died January 1, 1949 (aged 85)
Political party Conservative
Progressive Conservative
Other political
affiliations		 Conservative Party of Ontario
Cabinet Minister Without Portfolio (1926)

Donald Sutherland, PC (April 8, 1863 – January 1, 1949) was a Canadian politician.

Born in Zorra Township, Canada West, he was first ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Oxford South in the 1908 federal election. He was defeated but was elected in the 1911 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1917, 1921, and 1925. He was defeated in 1926, 1930, and in a 1934 by-election. In 1926, he was a Minister without Portfolio in the short lived cabinet of Arthur Meighen. In 1935, he was called to the Canadian Senate representing the senatorial division of Oxford, Ontario. He died while in office in 1949.

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