George Sutherland (1862-1942) was a British-born American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1922 to 1938. He was born in Buckinghamshire, England, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1871. He attended Brigham Young Academy (now Brigham Young University) and the University of Michigan Law School, where he graduated in 1883. Sutherland practiced law in Utah and was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1902. He served in the House until 1917, when he was appointed to the United States Senate. He served in the Senate until 1922, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Warren G. Harding. As a Supreme Court Justice, Sutherland was a strong advocate of judicial restraint and a defender of states' rights. He wrote several important opinions, including United States v. Butler (1936), which held that the federal government could not use the taxing power to regulate activities that were traditionally within the states' police powers. He retired from the Court in 1938 and died in 1942.
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