Daniel Sutherland
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"Daniel Alexander Sutherland", nicknamed ""Fighting Dan"", was an United States/American businessperson and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives during the 1920s as the Delegate (United States Congress)/delegate from what was then the Alaska Territory.

Sutherland was born in Pleasant Bay, Canada on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. He moved with his parents to Essex, Massachusetts/Essex in the U.S. state of Massachusetts in 1876, where he attended the Public school (government funded)/public schools. He was later employed as a grocer's clerk, and subsequently engaged in the fish business.

Sutherland moved to Circle City, Alaska in 1898. When gold was discovered in the sands of Nome, Alaska/Nome in 1900 he moved across the territory and became a Prospecting/prospector eventually becoming a co-owner of a mining company. In 1909 he moved to Juneau, Alaska/Juneau.

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