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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaBLAND, Schuyler Otis
(1872—1950)
BLAND, Schuyler Otis, a Representative from Virginia; born near Gloucester, Gloucester County, Va., May 4, 1872; attended the Gloucester Academy, Gloucester, Va.; attended the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; teacher; lawyer, private practice; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative William A. Jones; reelected to the Sixty-sixth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (July 2, 1918-February 16, 1950); chair, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Seventy-third through Seventy-ninth Congresses and Eighty-first Congress); died on February 16, 1950, in Bethesda, Md.; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery, Newport News, Va.
United States. 81st Cong., 2d sess., 1950-1951. House. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Schuyler Otis Bland, late a Representative from Virginia
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1950.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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