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Bland, Richard Parks

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 19, 1835, near Hartford, Ky. He received an academic education; removed to Missouri in 1855, thence to California, and thence to that portion of Utah now Nevada, locating at Virginia City. He practiced law; was interested in mining operations in California and Nevada, and was county treasurer of Carson county, Utah territory, from 1860 until the organization of the state government of Nevada. He returned to Missouri in 1865; located at Rolla, Mo., and practiced law with his brother, C. C. Bland, until he removed to Lebanon in August, 1869, and continued his practice there. He was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, ferty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a silver democrat. In 1896 his name was prominently brought forward for president of the United States.