{{Short description|American politician from Indiana (1872–1934)}} {{for|the American judge|Frederick Landis Jr.}} <!-- This article was automatically created by User:polbot from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000051. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. -->
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Frederick Landis | image = FrederickLandis.jpg | alt = | caption = | order = | office = Member-elect of the<br />U.S. House of Representatives<br />from Indiana's 2nd district | term = ''Died before assuming office'' | predecessor = George R. Durgan | successor = Charles A. Halleck | office1 = Member of the<br />U.S. House of Representatives<br />from Indiana's 11th district | term_start1 = March 4, 1903 | term_end1 = March 3, 1907 | predecessor1 = George W. Steele | successor1 = George W. Rauch | party = Republican | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1872|8|18}} | birth_place = Seven Mile, Ohio, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1934|11|15|1872|8|18}} | death_place = Logansport, Indiana, U.S. | resting_place = Mount Hope Cemetery | spouse = | children = }} '''Frederick Landis''' (August 18, 1872 – November 15, 1934) was an American lawyer, politician, author, and newspaper editor who served two terms as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1903 to 1907.
He was a brother of both Charles Beary Landis, a newspaperman and U.S. representative, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first commissioner of baseball.
== Early life == thumb|left|upright|Photo of the Landis brothers in 1908 Born at Seven Mile, Ohio, Landis moved with his parents to Logansport, Indiana, in 1875. He attended the public schools. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1895. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice at Logansport, Indiana.
==Congress == Landis was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907).<ref name="cd">{{cite web |title=S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=2 July 2023 |page=30 |date=9 November 1903}}</ref> He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.
==Later career as writer, newspaper editor, and death == He returned to Logansport and engaged in writing and lecturing. He was one of the organizers of the Progressive Party in 1912 and temporary chairman of its first State convention in Indiana.
He served as a delegate to the National Progressive Convention at Chicago in 1912. He was an unsuccessful candidate for governor on the Progressive ticket in 1912. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for governor on the Republican ticket in 1928. He was an author and lecturer.
He wrote ''Glory of His Country'' about a man infiltrating the Copperheads'' published in 1910. It was adapted by Augustus Thomas'' into the play ''The Copperhead: A Story in Four Acts''. In 1920 Lionel Barrymore starred in the successful film version ''The Copperhead''.
He also wrote ''Angel of Lonesome Hill'' and edited the ''Logansport Pharos Tribune'' as well as ''The Hoosier Editor''.<ref>https://www.in.gov/library/finding-aid/S0800%20Landis%20Frederick%20Papers.pdf{{Dead link | date=September 2025 | fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
A print was made depicting his "farm residence".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/dr_view-farm-residences-of-frederick-landis-peter-fetters-3746040|title=(View) Farm Residences of Frederick Landis, Peter Fetters.|first=Belden & Co|last=Higgins|date=March 16, 1874|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
==Election return and death== 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.
He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.
==Writings== *''The Glory of His Country''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inauthors/view?docId=VAA3896&brand=ia-books&field1=text&text1=lionel&submit=Search&hit.rank=1#1|title=The Glory of His Country|website=webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu}}</ref> *''The Angel of Lonesome Hill, A Story of a President'' (1910)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inauthors/view?docId=VAA3900&brand=ia-books|title=The Angel of Lonesome Hill|website=webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu}}</ref> *''Days Gone Dry'' (1919) with cartoons by Gaar Williams about prohibition<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/daysgonedry00landgoog/page/n10/mode/1up|title=Days Gone Dry|date=March 16, 1919|publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}} {{CongBio|L000051}} {{Bioguide}}
==External links== * {{Gutenberg author |id=2995| name=Frederick Landis}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Frederick Landis}} * [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#779.76.84 Fred Landis entry] at The Political Graveyard
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