William Andrew Sutherland

William Andrew Sutherland (May 30, 1849 – March 11, 1908) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life Sutherland was born on May 30, 1849, in Hopewell, New York. He was the son of Rev. Andrew Sutherland and Mary McLean. He attended the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and Genesee College in Lima, New York. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.

After finishing school, Sutherland read law in the office of future New York Supreme Court Justice Edwin A. Nash. He was admitted to practice in 1874. He practiced in Lima until 1876, when he moved to Mount Morris. He served as Clerk of the Livingston County Board of Supervisors in 1876, 1878, and 1879. He moved to Rochester in 1884. He was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1892 to 1896.

Sutherland was an associate counsel for the Lexow Committee in 1894, a New York State Senate probe tasked with investigating police corruption . He was president of the Rochester Bar Association and corporation counsel for Rochester. He was also a director of the Central Bank of Rochester.

He married Inez L. Jackson in 1878. They had one son, Carroll Arthur. After Inez died in 1905, Sutherland married Clara E. Bowen.

Sutherland was a Methodist until 1905, at which point he became a Presbyterian. Three years later on March 11, 1908, he died in Rochester City Hospital, just a few weeks after he was appointed counsel for the New York Public Service Commission's Second District. He had suffered from a nervous breakdown.