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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkRoyal Samuel COPELAND
(1868-1938)
Senate Years of Service:
1923-1938Party: DemocratCOPELAND, Royal Samuel, a
Senator from New York; born in Dexter, Washtenaw County, Mich., on
November 7, 1868; attended the public schools and Michigan State
Normal School, Ypsilanti, Mich.; graduated from the medical
department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1889; took
postgraduate courses in Europe; house surgeon in the University of
Michigan Hospital 1889-1890; practiced medicine in Bay City, Mich.
1890-1895; professor in the medical school of the University of
Michigan 1895-1908; mayor of Ann Arbor, Mich.1901-1903; president
of the park board in 1905 and 1906, and president of the Ann Arbor
board of education in 1907 and 1908; member of the Michigan State
tuberculosis board of trustees 1900-1908; moved to New York City in
1908; dean of the New York Flower Hospital and Medical College
1908-1918; member of the United States pension examining board in
1917; commissioner of public health and president of the New York
Board of Health 1918-1923; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1922; reelected in 1928 and 1934, and served from
March 4, 1923, until his death on June 17, 1938, in Washington,
D.C.; chairman, Committee on Rules (Seventy-third Congress),
Committee on Commerce (Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth
Congresses); author of several scientific works, nationally known
for his writings and radio broadcasts on health problems;
unsuccessful candidate for nomination as mayor of New York City in
1937; died in Washington, D.C.; interment in Mahwah Cemetery,
Mahwah, N.J.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Potter, Raymond. “Royal Samuel Copeland,
1868-1938: A Physician in Politics.” Ph.D. dissertation, Case
Western Reserve, 1967; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services.
76th Cong., 1st sess., 1939. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
Office, 1939.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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