History of Lebanon, (Laclede County) Missouri United States of America

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Richard Parks Bland, representative, was born in Ohio county, Ky., Aug. 19, 1835. Richard's first occupation was teaching school in Kentucky and afterwards in Missouri, and in 1855 he went to California, and spent the next ten years in that state and in Utah, fighting the Indians, teaching school, and studying law. He became interested in mining properties in California and Nevada, and settled in Virginia city in 1860, where he practised law and served as treasurer of Carson county until the admission of the territory as a state in 1864, when he returned to Misssouri, and, with his brother, C.C. Bland, continued the practice of law at Rolla, removing from there to Lebanon, Mo., in 1868. In 1873 he was married to a daughter of Gen. E.Y. Mitchell of Rolla, Mo. In 1872 he was elected a representative from the 8th Missouri district to the 43d Congress and was re-elected to the 44th, and each succeeding Congress to the 53d, inclusive. He was defeated in the election of 1894, by Joel D. Hubbard, Republican, by seventy votes and was elected in 1896 to the 55th Congress. He was an advocate of free silver, and in the 45th Congress introduced a bill providing for the purchase of the silver bullion sufficient to coin at least two million dollars a month in silver dollars of 412 1/2 grains each, making such coinage legal tender. The bill became known as the "Bland Silver Bill." He opposed monopolies and corporations; took a decided stand against U.S. troops at the polls; was in favor of freedom and equality of the states; in opposition to protective tariffs, and in opposition to national banks; in favor of the restoration of bimetallism as it existed prior to 1873, and the issuing of all money by the government. He was before the Democratic convention of 1896 as candidate for President and received 235 votes. He died at Lebanon, Mo., June 15. 1899.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Joseph Washington McClurg, governor of Missouri, was born in St. Louis county, Mo., Feb. 22, 1818. He was brought upon a farm, and was graduated from Oxford college, Ohio, in 1835. He taught school in Louisiana and Mississippi, 1835-36, studied law in Texas, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He returned to Missouri in 1844, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was colonel of the Osage regiment in the Federal army and later of a cavalry regiment. He was a delegate to the Missouri state conventions of 1861, 1862 and 1863, and a Republican representative in the 38th, 39th and 40th congresses, 1863-68, resigning in 1868. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Baltimore, June 7, 1864, and to the Loyalists' convention at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1866. He was elected governor of Missouri by the Republican party, serving 1869-71, and was defeated for a second term by Benjamin Gratz Brown in 1870. He was receiver of public moneys at Springfield, 1889-93. He died at Lebanon, Mo., Dec. 2, 1900.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor