Frederick Landis

Frederick Landis

Frederick Landis (born August 18, 1872 in Seven Mile , Butler County , Ohio , †  November 15, 1934 in Logansport , Indiana ) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1907 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frederick Landis was the younger brother of Congressman Charles B. Landis (1858-1922). As early as 1875 he came to Logansport, Indiana with his parents, where he attended public schools. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission to the bar in 1895, he began to work in Logansport in this profession.

Politically, Landis was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1902 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eleventh constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded George Washington Steele on March 4, 1903 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1907 . In 1906 he was not re-elected.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Landis returned to Logansport, where he worked as a writer and reciter. In 1912 he was one of the founders of the Progressive Party in Indiana, whose federal party conference in Chicago he attended as a delegate in the same year. Also in 1912 he ran unsuccessfully for his new party as governor of Indiana. Frederick Landis later returned to the Republicans. In 1928 he failed within his party in an attempt to be nominated for the gubernatorial election. In the elections of 1934 he was re-elected to Congress. However, he died a week after the election on November 15 in a hospital in Logansport and was therefore unable to take up his post.

Web links

• Frederick Landis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Frederick Landis in the database of Find a Grave (English)