Silas Z. Landes

Silas Zephaniah Landes ( born May 15, 1842 Augusta County, Virginia; † May 23, 1910 in Mount Carmel, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Silas country attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1863 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Mount Carmel to work in this profession. Between 1872 and 1884 he was a prosecutor in Wabash County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1884 in the 16 electoral district of Illinois was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Aaron Shaw on March 4, 1885. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1889 two legislative sessions. In 1888 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives country first worked as a lawyer in Mount Carmel. Between 1891 and 1897 he was a judge in the fourth judicial district of Illinois. He then practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 23 May 1910 in Mount Carmel, where he was also buried.