William Thomas Bland

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William Thomas Bland

William Thomas Bland (born January 21, 1861 in Weston , Lewis County , Virginia , †  January 15, 1928 in Orlando , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1921 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Born in what is now West Virginia , William Bland was a grandson of Congressman John G. Jackson (1777-1825) from Virginia and a cousin of James M. Jackson (1825-1901), who sat for West Virginia in the US House of Representatives. He studied at the University of West Virginia at Morgantown until 1883 . After a subsequent law degree at the same university and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his admission to the bar in 1885, he began to work in Weston in this profession.

In 1887, Bland moved to Atchison , Kansas . In the local Atchison County he served as a prosecutor from 1890 to 1892. In 1894 he became mayor of Atchison. Between 1896 and 1901, Bland served as a judge in the Kansas Second Judicial District. In 1901 he started working in the drug trade. From 1904 he lived in Kansas City (Missouri), where he continued to work in this industry until 1917. Then he went into the banking industry.

At the same time, Bland began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1909 and 1918 he was chairman of the Kansas City Port Facility Improvement Commission. He was also one of the directors of a nationwide rivers and harbors care facility ( National Rivers and Harbors Congress ). Bland also served as the vice president of the Mississippi Valley Waterway Association . From 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the Kansas City Education Committee; later he became its chairman.

In the 1918 congressional elections , Bland was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded William Patterson Borland on March 4, 1919 . Since he was defeated by Republican Edgar C. Ellis in 1920 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1921 . During this time the 18th and 19th amendments were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, William Bland moved to Orlando, Florida in 1921, where he worked in the banking industry. He was also a member of the municipal utilities board for three years. He died in Orlando on January 15, 1928.

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SURNAME Bland, William Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Weston , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1928
Place of death Orlando , Florida