Donald Sutherland (politician) explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Hon.
Donald Sutherland
Office1:Senator for Oxford, Ontario
Appointed1:R. B. Bennett
Term Start1:1935
Term End1:1949
Riding2:Oxford South
Parliament2:Canadian
Predecessor2:Malcolm Smith Schell
Successor2:Thomas Merritt Cayley
Term Start2:1911
Term End2:1926
Office3:Ontario MPP
Predecessor3:Angus McKay
Successor3:Thomas Richard Mayberry
Term Start3:1902
Term End3:1908
Constituency3:Oxford South
Party:Conservative
Progressive Conservative
Otherparty:Conservative
Birth Date:8 April 1863
Birth Place:Zorra Township, Canada West
Death Place:Ottawa, Ontario
Occupation:Farmer
Cabinet:Minister without portfolio (1926)

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

Born in Zorra Township, Canada West, he was first ran for the House of Commons of Canada 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 Senate of Canada to represent the senatorial division of Oxford, Ontario. He died while in office in 1949.