Schuyler Otis Bland
(May 4, 1872 – February 16, 1950) was a
United States
Representative from Virginia
.
Born near
Gloucester,
Virginia
, he attended the Gloucester Academy and the
College of
William and Mary
. He was a teacher and a lawyer in private
practice, and was elected as a
Democrat to the
Sixty-fifth Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative
William A. Jones. He was reelected to the Sixty-sixth
and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses, serving from July 2, 1918
to February 16, 1950. While in the House, he was chair of the
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Seventy-third through
Seventy-ninth Congresses and Eighty-first Congress). He was very
good at his job and was good looking and was very wealthy.
Bland died
in Bethesda,
Maryland
and was interred in Greenlawn Cemetery, Newport News,
Virginia
.