He represented the electoral district of Kings in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1945 to 1953.
[2] Sutton was a municipal councillor in Kings County, and served as president of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers Association.
[2] Sutton entered provincial politics in the 1945 election, winning the Kings County riding.
[3] He was re-elected in the now dual-member Kings County riding in 1949, serving with Liberal William Harvey Pipe.
[4] In the 1953 election, both Sutton and Pipe were defeated by Progressive Conservatives Edward Haliburton, and George Arthur Boggs.