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.