{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = David Russell Sutton | birth_date = {{birth date|1895|11|2}} | birth_place = Somerville, Massachusetts | death_date = {{death date and age|1970|2|13|1895|11|2}} | death_place = | office = MLA for Kings County | term_start = 1945 | term_end = 1953 | predecessor = John A. McDonald | successor = Edward Haliburton<br />George Arthur Boggs | party = Nova Scotia Liberal Party | occupation = farmer, fruit grower }}
'''David Russell Sutton''' (November 2, 1895 – February 13, 1970) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Kings in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1945 to 1953. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nslegislature.ca/pdfs/about/ConstituencyHistories/kings%20south.pdf|title=Electoral History for Kings County|publisher=Nova Scotia Legislative Library|accessdate=2015-04-29|archive-date=2017-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922232823/http://nslegislature.ca/pdfs/about/ConstituencyHistories/kings%20south.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Born in 1895 at Somerville, Massachusetts, Sutton's family moved to Canada in 1896.<ref name="bio directory">{{cite book|last1=Elliott|first1=Shirley B.|author-link1=Shirley Elliott|title=The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1983 : a biographical directory|url=https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/212|accessdate=2018-05-15|year=1984|publisher=Public Archives of Nova Scotia|isbn=0-88871-050-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/212 212]}}</ref> He was educated at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, and was a farmer and fruit grower in Kings County, Nova Scotia.<ref name="bio directory"/> He married Lulu Marguerite Morine in 1919.<ref name="bio directory"/> Sutton was a municipal councillor in Kings County, and served as president of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers Association.<ref name="bio directory"/>
Sutton entered provincial politics in the 1945 election, winning the Kings County riding.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201945.pdf|title=Election Returns 1945|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|accessdate=2015-05-07|archive-date=2015-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518081113/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was re-elected in the now dual-member Kings County riding in 1949, serving with Liberal William Harvey Pipe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201949.pdf |title=Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1949 |publisher=Elections Nova Scotia |year=1949 |page=46 |accessdate=2015-05-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518081248/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201949.pdf |archivedate=2015-05-18 }}</ref> In the 1953 election, both Sutton and Pipe were defeated by Progressive Conservatives Edward Haliburton, and George Arthur Boggs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201953.pdf|title=Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1953|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|year=1953|page=47|accessdate=2015-05-07|archive-date=2015-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402111427/http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General|url-status=dead}}</ref> Sutton died on February 13, 1970.<ref name="bio directory"/>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sutton, David Durell}} Category:1895 births Category:1970 deaths Category:Nova Scotia Agricultural College alumni Category:Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs Category:Politicians from Kings County, Nova Scotia Category:Politicians from Somerville, Massachusetts Category:20th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly