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New Zealand politician
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2 May 1961
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Biography
Introduction
Andrew Sinclair Sutherland CBE (13 September 1882 – 2 May 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
Biography
| Parliament of New Zealand | ||||
| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
| 1942–1943 | 26th | Hauraki | National | |
| 1943–1946 | 27th | Hauraki | National | |
| 1946–1949 | 28th | Hauraki | National | |
| 1949–1951 | 29th | Hauraki | National | |
| 1951–1954 | 30th | Hauraki | National | |
Sutherland was born in 1882 in Palmerston, Otago. He was a member of the 9th New Zealand contingent (1902) to the Boer War.
He contested the 1938 in the Raglan electorate against the incumbent, Labour's Lee Martin, but was unsuccessful. He represented the Hauraki electorate from a 1942 by-election, caused by the death of John Manchester Allen, to 1954, when he retired. He was senior whip from 1950 to 1954. He was appointed a CBE in 1955.