Roderick Dhu Sutherland was a Nebraska

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Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....

 Populist

Populist Party (United States)

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 politician

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Sutherland was born in Scotch Grove, Iowa

Scotch Grove, Iowa

Scotch Grove is an unincorporated community in Jones County, Iowa, United States. Scotch Grove is located on Iowa Highway 38 southeast of Monticello and north of Center Junction....

 and attended Amity College, College Springs, Iowa

College Springs, Iowa

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. He taught school and studied law, being admitted to the bar

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 in 1888. He set up practice in Nelson, Nebraska

Nelson, Nebraska

Nelson is a city in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 587 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Nuckolls County.The city was named as the county seat in 1872, and its position survived a challenge by Superior in 1889...

, becoming the prosecuting attorney of Nuckolls County

Nuckolls County, Nebraska

Nuckolls County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 4,500. Its county seat is Nelson....

 1890 until 1896.

Sutherland served as the chairman of the Populist state convention in Nebraska in 1899. He then was appointed by governor William A. Poynter

William A. Poynter

William Amos Poynter was a Nebraska politician best known as the tenth Governor of Nebraska from 1899 to 1901, running under a fusion ticket between the Populist and the Democratic Party...

 as a delegate to the trust conference held in Chicago in September 1899. He was elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901), but failed at being reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress in November 1900. He was a delegate to the Populist National Convention and a delegate to the 1900 Democratic National Convention

1900 Democratic National Convention

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 and the 1908 Democratic National Convention

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After his Congressional service, Sutherland resumed practice of law in Nelson, and died in Kansas City, Kansas

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in 1915. His remains were interred in Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, Nebraska.
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