Frederick "Fred" Arthur Sutter

Legislative Resolution

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Biographical Information

The following is from Jo Conners' Who's Who in Arizona (Tucson, AZ: Jo Conners, 1913), pp. 504-505:

Frederick Arthur Sutter. Judge of the Superior Court of Cochise County, was born in Marshall, Michigan, March 10, 1874, but lived on a farm in Nebraska until he was twenty years of age, and received his early education in that State.  At that time, he came to Arizona, located in Bisbee, and went to work in the mines, which work he continued until he had sufficient funds to enable him to attend school and prepare for the study of law. He then attended Shattuck Military School, at Faribault, Minnesota, from which he was graduated in June, 1902.  In January of the next year he returned to Bisbee and opened an office to engage in private practice, and until his election as Judge of the County, made Bisbee his home.  During his residence there he served as City Attorney for five years and also as Deputy District Attorney of Cochise County for several terms.  He was a member of the twenty-fifth Legislative Assembly, and during his term was special champion of bills favoring the taxpayer and the laboring man.  At the time of his election Judge Sutter was a member of the firm of Neale & Sutter, who had attained much prominence in the profession.

He is a member of Bisbee Lodges of Moose and Elks.

A thorough student of law, able, conscientious, and possessing excellent judgment, Judge Sutter during his first year on the bench has merited and won the recognition which is his due, and quite befitting his position as Judge of the Superior Court of the first county in the State. Judge Sutter was married in June, 1912, to Miss Edna McGavock. Their present home is at Tombstone, the county seat.

The following is from the Legislative death resolution:

Whereas, Frederick Arthur Sutter, of Bisbee, Cochise county, died in the hospital at Tucson, Arizona, following a lingering illness, on November 23, 1941, aged sixty-seven years; and

Whereas, the deceased was a lawyer, law-maker, and civic leader of high rank, and one of Arizona's outstanding citizens; and

Whereas, his public services were marked by ability and justice, both on the Superior Court bench of Cochise county and as a member of the Arizona Legislature, in which he served as a member of the 1909 House of Representatives-the last Territorial Legislature-and the Senate of the Third, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth State Legislatures, in the last mentioned term being elevated to the Presidency of that body….

Employment

Arizona Legislative Service

Sources

Birth: Arizona Legislative Biography sheet, WW I draft card, son’s 1914 AZ birth record, AZ death record; Death: AZ death record: Fred Arthur Sutter, Legislative death resolution; Cemetery:  Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum Evergreen Cemetery database