Background
Albert G. Rutherford was born in Watford, Ontario, Canada.
United States representative politician
Albert G. Rutherford was born in Watford, Ontario, Canada.
He attended Blair Academy in Blairstown, New Jersey, and the Scranton-Lackawanna Business College.
He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School at Philadelphia in 1904. He served as deputy prothonotary of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, from 1907 to 1914. He moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, in 1918 and continued the practice of law.
He enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guard in 1904, and served as a lieutenant colonel of the Second Pennsylvania Reserve Militia in 1918.
Rutherford was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served until his death in Washington, District of Columbia in 1941.