Gerald W. Landis

Gerald W. Landis

Gerald Wayne Landis (born February 23, 1895 in Bloomfield , Greene County , Indiana , †  September 6, 1971 in Linton , Indiana) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1949 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gerald Landis attended the public schools in his home country. During the First World War he was a lieutenant in the US Army . He then continued his education until 1923 with a study at Indiana University in Bloomington . Between 1923 and 1938, Landis worked as a teacher in Linton. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . In 1944 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Thomas E. Dewey was first nominated as a presidential candidate. Twenty years later, in 1964, he was a delegate to the regional Republican party convention in Indiana.

In the 1938 congressional election , Landis was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Arthur H. Greenwood on January 3, 1939 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1949 . Since 1941 these were shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. In 1948, Landis was not confirmed. Between 1954 and 1961 he worked for the US Department of Agriculture . He died in Linton on September 6, 1971.

Web links

• Gerald W. Landis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Gerald W. Landis in the database of Find a Grave (English)