Charles B. Landis

Charles Beary Landis (* July 9, 1858 in Millville, Butler County, Ohio, † April 24, 1922 in Asheville, North Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1909 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Landis was the older brother of Frederick Landis (1872-1934), who was also 1903-1907 for Indiana in Congress. He attended the public schools in Logansport and then studied until 1883 at Wabash College in Crawfordsville. He then began a career in journalism. Between 1883 and 1887 he published the newspaper " Logansport Journal," and later still the "Delphi Journal".

Politically, Landis member of the Republican Party. In the years 1894 and 1895 he served as president of the Association of Republican newspaper publisher in Indiana. In the congressional elections of 1896 he was in the ninth constituency of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frank Hanly on March 4, 1897. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1909 six legislative periods. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898.

After he was not confirmed in 1908, Charles Landis continued his journalistic activities in Delphi continues. For health reasons, he later moved to Asheville in North Carolina, where he died on 24 April 1922. He was buried in Logansport.