Frederick Landis was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a US Representative from Indiana from 1903 to 1907.
12 Facts About Frederick Landis
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Frederick Landis was a brother of both Charles Beary Landis and of baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
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Frederick Landis was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1895.
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Frederick Landis was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice at Logansport, Indiana.
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Frederick Landis was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses.
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Frederick Landis was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.
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Frederick Landis returned to Logansport and engaged in writing and lecturing.
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Frederick Landis was one of the organizers of the Progressive Party in 1912 and temporary chairman of its first State convention in Indiana.
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Frederick Landis served as a delegate to the National Progressive Convention at Chicago in 1912.
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Frederick Landis was an unsuccessful candidate for governor on the Progressive ticket in 1912.
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Frederick Landis was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for governor on the Republican ticket in 1928.
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Frederick Landis was elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6,1934, but died in a hospital in Logansport, Indiana, November 15,1934, before Congress had convened.