David Russell Sutton (November 2, 1895 – February 13, 1970) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of

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in the

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from 1945 to 1953. He was a member of the

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. Born in 1895 at

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, Sutton's family moved to Canada in 1896. He was educated at the

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, and was a farmer and fruit grower in

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. He married Lulu Marguerite Morine in 1919. Sutton was a municipal councillor in Kings County, and served as president of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers Association. Sutton entered provincial politics in the 1945 election, winning the Kings County riding. He was re-elected in the now dual-member Kings County riding in

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, serving with Liberal William Harvey Pipe. In the 1953 election, both Sutton and Pipe were defeated by Progressive Conservatives

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, and

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. Sutton died on February 13, 1970.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sutton, David Durell 1895 births 1970 deaths Nova Scotia Agricultural College alumni Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs People from Kings County, Nova Scotia Politicians from Somerville, Massachusetts