Charles B. Landis

Charles B. Landis (around 1908)

Charles Beary Landis (born July 9, 1858 in Millville , Butler County , Ohio , †  April 24, 1922 in Asheville , North Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1909 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Landis was the older brother of Frederick Landis (1872-1934), who also sat for Indiana in Congress between 1903 and 1907 . He attended the public schools in Logansport and then studied until 1883 at Wabash College in Crawfordsville . Then he began a journalistic career. Between 1883 and 1887 he published the newspaper "Logansport Journal" and later the "Delphi Journal".

Politically, Landis was a member of the Republican Party . In 1894 and 1895 he served as president of the Indiana Republican Newspaper Publishers Association. In the congressional elections of 1896 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Frank Hanly on March 4, 1897 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1909 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell .

After he was not confirmed in 1908, Charles Landis continued his journalistic activities in Delphi . For health reasons he later moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he died on April 24, 1922. He was buried in Logansport.

Web links

• Charles B. Landis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles B. Landis in the database of Find a Grave (English)