S. Otis Bland

Life & Legacy

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 66th and to the 15 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 (73rd through 79th Congresses and 81st Congress). The United States Merchant Marine Academy Library is named in his honor.
Bland died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland and was interred in Greenlawn Cemetery, Newport News, Virginia.