Fred Sutter

Fred Sutter
Member of the Arizona Senate from the Cochise County district
In office January 1917 – December 1918
Member of the Arizona Senate from the Cochise County district
In office January 1929 – December 1932
Personal details
Political party	Democratic
Profession	Politician

Fred Sutter was an Arizona attorney and politician. He ran several times, unsuccessfully, for governor of the state, and was elected several times to the state legislature.

Fred Sutter was born in Marshall Michigan, before moving to Nebraska with his family. The family then moved to Arizona in 1893. As young man, in 1894, he worked at the smelter in Bisbee, in order to earn money to help pay for his education expenses. In 1896, Sutter was sent to Shattuck's School in Faribault, Minnesota, following a send-off gala in Bisbee, Arizona. He finished attending the school and returned to Bisbee in 1899. He then went to law school, where he received his B. LL. By 1903 he was a practicing attorney in Bisbee, and was a partner in the law firm of Neale and Sutter. That same year he was chosen as the chairman of the welcoming committee for a visit to Bisbee by territorial governor Alexander Oswald Brodie. In 1904 he became the town's assistant district attorney, and became the town's district attorney in April of that year. When the Democrats held their territorial convention in Tucson in the Spring of 1904, Sutter was elected chairman. Later that year his wife became very ill with a bout of typhoid fever. In November 1910, she passed away suddenly from heart failure. Sutter accompanied his wife's remains to Nebraska, where she was from, for her burial.

While he had been active in the Democratic party, he had never held a publicly-elected office. In 1908, he became one of two Democratic candidates for the territorial legislature from Cochise County. Both he and his two running mates, Neil Bailey and Oscar W. Roberts, won election to the Arizona House of Representatives in the 25th Arizona Territorial Legislature. Sutter was the top vote-getter. Upon his election, he became one of the favorites to become Speaker of the House, however, he withdrew his name from contention shortly before the legislature convened. Sutter continued to be active in the county Democratic committee, and was known for bringing his bull dog, "Neale", to committee meetings. During the early 1910s, he was also president of the city Democratic committee, known as the "Warren District Democratic Club". Although he did not serve on the Constitutional Committee in 1910, he praised their efforts, and advocated that the territory accept the offer of statehood as presented by the U.S. Congress.

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