Supreme Court · Associate Justice
George Sutherland
Republican appointee: Appointed by Warren G. Harding (R)
Served 1922–1938 · 1 term in the data
Confirmed by voice vote
Biography
George Alexander Sutherland was a British-born American jurist and politician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1922 to 1938. A member of the Republican Party, he also represented Utah in the U.S. Senate from 1905 to 1917 and in the House of Representatives from 1901 to 1903.
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Ideology over time
Sutherland and the 9 justices who overlapped with Sutherland, 1937
- George Sutherland
- 95% credible interval
- Peer, appointed by a Democrat
- Peer, appointed by a Republican
- Court median
How to read this
Martin–Quinn scores place each justice on a single liberal–conservative dimension, estimated from their votes across terms, with scores allowed to shift from one term to the next. Higher is more conservative. The shaded band is the credible interval: wider when the record is thin, especially in a justice’s first terms, and narrower as votes accumulate.
Where Sutherland sits among all justices
Career average, every justice in the data set
Sutherland’s range across terms
Served alongside Sutherland
9 justicesClosest career average first. Filled dot: the peer. Ring: Sutherland.