Frederick Landis
Frederick Landis | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 11th district | |
| In office March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907 | |
| Preceded by | George W. Steele |
| Succeeded by | George W. Rauch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 18, 1872 Seven Mile, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | November 15, 1934 (aged 62) Logansport, Indiana, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Hope Cemetery |
| Political party | Republican |
Frederick Landis (August 18, 1872 – November 15, 1934) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1903 to 1907.
He was a brother of both Charles Beary Landis and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
Biography
[edit]Born at Seven Mile, Ohio, Landis moved with his parents to Logansport, Indiana, in 1875. He attended the public schools. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1895. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice at Logansport, Indiana.
Congress
[edit]Landis was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907).[1] He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.
Later career and death
[edit]He returned to Logansport and engaged in writing and lecturing. He was one of the organizers of the Progressive Party in 1912 and temporary chairman of its first State convention in Indiana.
He served as a delegate to the National Progressive Convention at Chicago in 1912. He was an unsuccessful candidate for governor on the Progressive ticket in 1912. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for governor on the Republican ticket in 1928. He was an author and lecturer.
Landis was elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934, but died in a hospital in Logansport, Indiana, November 15, 1934, before Congress had convened.
He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.
References
[edit]- ^ "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. 9 November 1903. p. 30. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- United States Congress. "Frederick Landis (id: L000051)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
External links
[edit]- Works by Frederick Landis at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Frederick Landis at the Internet Archive
- Fred Landis entry at The Political Graveyard
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- 1872 births
- 1934 deaths
- People from Logansport, Indiana
- People from Butler County, Ohio
- University of Michigan Law School alumni
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana
- Indiana Progressives (1912)
- 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives