Scope and Content Note
The papers of George Sutherland (1862-1942) span the years 1850-1944, with the bulk of the material concentrated between 1902 and 1938. Correspondence, diaries, legal files, notes and memoranda, scrapbooks, speeches, and printed matter document Sutherland’s career as a United States congressman and senator, and as an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court. The correspondence relates to subjects such as the presidential campaign of 1920, Sutherland’s affiliation with the American Bar Association, Utah politics, his appointment to the bench in 1922, the Supreme Court packing plan controversy of 1937, and issues relating to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Correspondents include William Edgar Borah, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Tom Connally, Carter Glass, Warren G. Harding, Charles Evans Hughes, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William H. Taft, and John Sharp Williams.