James Sutterfield

James R. Sutterfield, also known as Jim Sutterfield (born August 6, 1942),^[1] is an attorney from New Orleans, Louisiana, who served a half-term as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1970 to 1972. Sutterfield won a special election to succeed Democrat Representative Nat G. Kiefer, who was instead elected to the Louisiana State Senate to fill a vacancy created by a member's death. He represented District 26, which was moved outside Orleans Parish with the general election held on February 1, 1972.^[2]

Career

In 1967, Sutterfield graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law; in 1981, he obtained a Master of Laws degree from the Tulane University Law School, also in New Orleans. He was licensed to practice law in 1967 in Louisiana. His practice through his Sutterfield and Webb firm at 650 Poydras Street concentrates on maritime and insurance law. In 1993, Sutterfield obtained licensing to practice in Texas.^[3] In earlier years, Sutterfield resided in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Hendersonville, North Carolina.^[4]

Elected at the age of twenty-seven, Sutterfield was the only Republican in the state House during his abbreviated term.^[2] Sutterfield was only the fifth Republican to have served in the Louisiana House since Reconstruction.^[5] In the state Senate, A. C. Clemons of Jennings in Jefferson Davis Parish, served as a Republican, but he had been last elected in 1968 as a Democrat, with the second administration of Governor John McKeithen.^[6]

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