Sutherland served as the chairman of the Populist state convention in Nebraska in 1899 . He then was appointed by governor William A. Poynter 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 and the 1908 Democratic National Convention
1908 Democratic National Convention
1908 Democratic National Convention
Roderick Dhu Sutherland