William P. Borland

{{short description|American politician and lawyer (1867–1919)}} {{for|the Northern Irish footballer and loyalist activist|William Borland (loyalist)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = William Patterson Borland | image = Portrait of William Patterson Borland.jpg | alt = | caption = | order = | office = Member of the U.S. House of Representatives | term_start = March 4, 1909 | term_end = February 20, 1919 | predecessor = | successor = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1867|10|14}} | birth_place = Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1919|2|20|1867|10|14}} | death_place = Koblenz, Germany | resting_place = Elmwood Cemetery<br />Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. | party = Democratic | spouse = {{marriage|Ona Winants|1904}} | children = | education = | alma_mater = University of Michigan | occupation = {{hlist|Politician|lawyer}} | signature = }} '''William Patterson Borland''' (October 14, 1867 – February 20, 1919) was a U.S. representative from Missouri.

==Early life== William Patterson Borland was born on October 14, 1867, in Leavenworth, Kansas. Borland attended public school. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1892. He was admitted to the bar.<ref name="bio">{{Cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000643 |title=Borland, William Patterson |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=2022-10-12}}</ref><ref name="death">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111156652/w-p-borland-dies-abroad-22-feb-1919/ |title=W. P. Borland Dies Abroad |date=1919-02-22 |newspaper=Kansas City Times |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2022-10-12}}{{Open access}}</ref>

==Career== After graduating, Borland commenced the practice of law in Kansas City, Missouri. He assisted in the organization of the Kansas City School of Law and served as dean from 1895 through 1909. Borland served as member of the board of freeholders directed to draft a charter for Kansas City in 1898. He also engaged as an author on law subjects.<ref name="bio"/><ref name="death"/>

Borland was elected as a Democrat to the sixty-first and four succeeding Congresses, and served from March 4, 1909 until his death.<ref name="bio"/> In 1914, he sponsored the District of Columbia Improvements Legislation, informally known as the Borland Amendment.<ref>{{cite web |title=Borland Amendment |url=https://legislation.lawi.us/borland-amendment-district-of-columbia-improvements/ |website=lawi.us |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref> Borland also introduced the Calder–Borland Bill (later called the Standard Time Act) with William M. Calder. The bill proposed daylight saving time for workers in the country. Borland was an advocate for prohibition and supported the Kahn amendment, a bill supporting military preparedness prior to the involvement of the United States in World War I. He later supported the Selective Service Act of 1917.<ref name="death"/> He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress, losing the Democratic primary to William T. Bland.<ref name="bio"/><ref name="death"/>

==Personal life== thumb|right|Grave of Borland in Elmwood Cemetery Borland married Ona Winants in 1904.<ref name="death"/>

In October 1918, Borland was stricken with the Spanish flu.<ref name="death"/> Borland died of pneumonia near Koblenz, Germany, while on a Masonic mission abroad, on February 20, 1919. He was interred in Elmwood Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.<ref name="bio"/><ref name="death"/>

==References== {{Reflist}} {{CongBio|B000643}} * [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t5bc43t12;view=1up;seq=3 William P. Borland, late a representative from Missouri, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1920]

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Missouri | district=5 | before=Edgar C. Ellis | after=William T. Bland | years=March 4, 1909 - February 20, 1919}} {{s-end}}

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