Oscar E. Bland

Oscar Edward Bland (* November 21, 1877 in Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana; † August 3, 1951 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1917 and 1923 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Oscar Bland first attended the common schools. He then studied at the Valparaiso University and at Indiana University in Bloomington. He then worked for three years as a teacher. After studying law and its made ​​in 1901 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in Linton. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1907-1909 Bland sat in the Senate of Indiana. In the years 1910, 1912 and 1914, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in each case.

In the congressional elections of 1916, Bland was elected in the second district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William A. Cullop on March 4, 1917. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1923 three legislative periods. In this time of the First World War fell. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. From 1919 to 1923 Oscar Bland was Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions. In 1922 he was not re-elected.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Bland was appointed by President Warren G. Harding to a federal judgeship on the United States Court of Customs Appeals. This post he held from 1923 until his resignation in 1949. Afterwards he worked again as a lawyer. Oscar Bland died on August 3, 1951 in the federal capital, Washington.