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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWilliam Thomas BLAND
(1861-1928)
BLAND, William Thomas,
(grandson of John George Jackson and cousin of James Monroe
Jackson), a Representative from Missouri; born in Weston, Lewis
County, Va. (now West Virginia), January 21, 1861; was graduated
from the University of West Virginia at Morgantown in 1883 and from
the law department of that university in 1884; took a special
course in law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in
1885; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Weston,
W.Va.; moved to Atchison, Kans., in 1887; prosecuting attorney of
Atchison County, Kans., 1890-1892; mayor of Atchison in 1894;
elected judge of the second Kansas district in 1896; reelected in
1900, and served until 1901, when he resigned; entered the
wholesale drug business in 1901; moved to Kansas City, Mo., in 1904
and continued in business until 1917 when he engaged in banking;
chairman of the Kansas City River and Harbor Improvement Commission
1909-1918; director of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress;
vice president of the Mississippi Valley Waterway Association;
elected to the Kansas City Board of Education in 1912 for a
six-year term and served as vice president and president; elected
as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3,
1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the
Sixty-seventh Congress, moved to Florida and settled in Orlando in
1921; engaged in banking; served as a member of the Orlando
Utilities Commission for three years; died in Orlando, Orange
County, Fla., January 15, 1928; interment in Greenwood
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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