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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaFrederick LANDIS
(1872-1934)
LANDIS, Frederick,
(brother of Charles Beary Landis), a Representative from Indiana;
born at Sevenmile, Butler County, Ohio, August 18, 1872; moved with
his parents to Logansport, Ind., in 1875; attended the public
schools; was graduated from the law department of the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1895; was admitted to the bar the same
year and commenced practice at Logansport, Ind.; elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4,
1903-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906
to the Sixtieth Congress; returned to Logansport and engaged in
writing and lecturing; one of the organizers of the Progressive
Party in 1912 and temporary chairman of its first State convention
in Indiana; delegate to the National Progressive Convention at
Chicago in 1912; unsuccessful candidate for Governor on the
Progressive ticket in 1912; unsuccessful candidate for the
nomination for Governor on the Republican ticket in 1928; author
and lecturer; elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6,
1934, but died in a hospital in Logansport, Ind., November 15,
1934, before Congress had convened; interment in Mount Hope
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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