Frederick Landis

Frederick Landis (August 18, 1872 – November 15, 1934) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1903 to 1907. He was a brother of both Charles Beary Landis and of baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Biography 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). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.