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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWilliam Patterson BORLAND
(1867-1919)
BORLAND, William
Patterson, a Representative from Missouri; born in
Leavenworth, Kans., October 14, 1867; attended the public schools;
was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor in 1892; was admitted to the bar and commenced the
practice of law in Kansas City, Mo., the same year; assisted in the
organization of the Kansas City School of Law and served as dean
1895-1909; member of the board of freeholders directed to draft a
charter for Kansas City in 1898; also engaged as an author on law
subjects; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the four
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until his
death; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918 to the
Sixty-sixth Congress; died near Coblenz, Germany, while on a
Masonic mission abroad, on February 20, 1919; interment in Elmwood
Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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