Frederick Isler Sutton

Background

Sutton, Frederick I. was born on September 7, 1886 in Kinston, North Carolina, United States. Son of Levi Mewborn and Cora Elizabeth (Grimsley) Sutton.

Education

Lewis & Miller private schools. Kinston High School, 1904. University of North Carolina, Bachelor of Arts, 1908.

Harvard, 1911, Bachelor of Laws. Studied in Europe, 1911.

Career

1 son, Frederick Islen. Admitted to North Carolina bar, 1910. Began practice of law, Kinston, 1912.

City attorney, Kinston. Mayor, Kinston, 1913-1919. Member Sutton & Greene, Kinston, North Carolina, 1922-1973.

Director A & North Carolina Railroad Company, South Atlantic Bonded Warehouse Corporation, Executive Committee Carolina Tel. & Tel. Company, 1959, 61, 62, now director, Life member National Conf Commissioners Uniform State Laws.

Membership

Member North Carolina General Assembly, 1924-1933, state senator, 1939-1940. Member National Democratic Finance Committee. Member Board of Conservation of Development 1927-1932.

Member Pan-American Congress. Served as chief Intelligence Bureau Kinston. Member American Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association (pres, 1940-1941), chairman of the executive committee 1938-1939), 6th District Bar Association (president 1931), American Judicature Society American Law Institute, 4th Circuit Federal Judicial Conference New York Chamber of Commerce, Academy Political Science, Newcomen Society, Harvard Law School Association, General Alumni Association of University of North Carolina (president), Harvard Southern.

Member West Virginia and Virginia bar associations, 1 lth and 5th District, bar associations, Alumni Association North Carolina State College. Mason (K.T., 32, shriner, acting potentate and orator. Jester, noble director 1950-1951).

Clubs: Harvard (New York).

• Member, State Legislature, 1925, 1927, since 1929. Chairman Judiciary Committee, 1927, 1929. Chairman Committee on Constitutional Amendments, 1925. Trustee University of North Carolina. Member, Board of Conservation and Development, since 1927. Chairman of Comm, on Game and Fish, since 1927. North Carolina Good Roads Association, Vice-President Sponsor StateWide Game Law. Member of Alpha Tau Omega. Pi Sigma; St. Johns Lodge Northern 4 Artist Fellowship&Master of Arts. Caswell Chapt. Royal Arch Mason. St. Paul’s Commandery Northern 18, Sudan Temple. Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic (charter Northern 260). Chamber of Commerce (Secretary and Treasurer). Clubs: Kinston Shrine (Past President 1913-1917), Kinston Kiwanis (Past President), Beale Law, Harvard Southern, Harvard A.T.O. (Past President), Kinston Country.

Connections

Spouse Annie Gray Fry, November 10, 1915, Greensboro, N.

Father:

Levi Mewborn Sutton

Mother:

Cora Elizabeth (Grimsley) Sutton

Spouse:

Annie Gray Fry