2026-05-09T11:43:21Z

Howard Sutherland, Senator, Correspondence regarding Appointments

Creator

Sutherland, Howard, 1865-1950

Abstract Or Scope

Correspondence of West Virginia Senator Howard Sutherland mainly regarding recommendations for appointments of West Virginian district attorneys, district attorney assistants, district federal judges, and U.S. Marshalls. There are both incoming and outgoing letters. One predominant recommendation is for Republican James French Strother for Federal District Judge of the Southern District of West Virginia. Strother went on to serve in the sixty-ninth and seventieth congresses from 1925 to 1929.