Charles Beary Landis was a U.S. Representative

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 from Indiana

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, brother of Congressman Frederick Landis

Frederick Landis

Frederick Landis was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, brother of Charles Beary Landis and baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis....

 and Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

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Born in Millville, Ohio

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, Landis attended the public schools of Logansport, Indiana

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, and was graduated from Wabash College

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, Crawfordsville, Indiana

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, in 1883.
He was editor of the Logansport Journal 1883-1887 and at the time of his nomination for Congress was editor of the Delphi (Indiana) Journal.
He served as president of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association in 1894 and 1895.

Landis was elected as a Republican

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 to the Fifty-fifth

55th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:* Republican: 206 * Democratic: 124* Populist: 22* Silver Republican: 3* Silver: 1* Independent Republican: 1TOTAL members: 357-Leadership:-Senate:* President: Garret Hobart * President pro tempore: William P...

 and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1909).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection.
He resumed newspaper work in Delphi, Indiana

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He died in Asheville, North Carolina

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, where he had gone because of impaired health, April 24, 1922.
He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, Logansport, Indiana

Logansport, Indiana

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