Edward H. Sutton was an inventor, author, and state legislator in North Carolina.
[1] He served in the state legislature in 1883.
[2] He lived in Edenton, North Carolina.
[3] An African American, he served with James W. Poe, A. R. Bridgers, Wiley Baker, James H. Harris, and John Newell.
[4] He patented a "cotton cultivator".