Background
He was the son of Silas Sutherland and Lydia (Tiffany) Sutherland.
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Edmund Gaines Sutherland
Edit Profilepolitician member of the New York State Senate
Career
In 1831, he became a printer, working first for the Troy Statesman, a weekly paper published by his half-brother Thomas Jefferson Sutherland. Then for the Berkshire Advocate at North Adams, Massachusetts. The North River Times in Haverstraw, New York (from 1834).
The New Orleans Observer (in 1836).
The True American (also in New Orleans, in 1837). And, beginning in the fall of 1837, the Hudson River Chronicle in Sing Sing, New New York
In 1840, Sutherland bought the paper from publisher Alexander H. Wells, who had been appointed Surrogate of Westchester County. In 1844 Sutherland sold the Chronicle, and in 1845 established in White Plains the Eastern State Journal, the leading Democratic paper of Westchester County.
He was Superintendent of Common Schools of White Plains in 1853 and 1854.
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Westchester County from 1858 to 1861. Supervisor of the Town of White Plains for several terms beginning in 1862. And Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Westchester County from 1863 to 1865.
He was buried at the White Plains Cemetery.
Membership
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Westchester Company, 2nd Doctorate) in 1857 and 1858. He was a member of the New York State Senate (8th Doctorate) in 1866 and 1867.
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Born
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Died
March 16, 1883 (aged 68) -
Nationality
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Political Party
Democratic party