Frederick Landis

Frederick Landis ( born August 18, 1872 in Seven Mile, Butler County, Ohio; † November 15, 1934 in Logansport, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1907 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederick Landis was the younger brother of Congressman Charles B. Landis ( 1858-1922 ). Already in 1875 he came with his parents to Logansport, Indiana, where he attended the public schools. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1895 admitted to the bar he began to work in Logansport in this profession.

Politically, Landis member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1902 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Washington Steele on March 4, 1903. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1907 two legislative sessions. In 1906 he was not re-elected.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Landis returned to Logansport, where he worked as a writer and reciter. In 1912 he was one of the founders of the Progressive Party in Indiana, whose Federal Party in Chicago, he attended as a delegate in the same year. Also in 1912, he ran unsuccessfully for his new party as governor of Indiana. Later, Frederick Landis returned to the Republicans. In 1928 he failed in his party in an attempt to be nominated for the gubernatorial elections. In the 1934 elections, he was again elected to Congress. He died just a week after the election on November 15 at a hospital in Logansport and could therefore no longer assume his mandate.