William Patterson Borland (October 14, 1867 – February 20, 1919) was a

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from

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Early life

William Patterson Borland was born on October 14, 1867, in

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. Borland attended public school. He graduated from the law department of the

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in 1892. He was

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Career

After graduating, Borland commenced the practice of law in

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. He assisted in the organization of the Kansas City School of Law and served as dean from 1895 through 1909. Borland served as member of the board of freeholders directed to draft a charter for Kansas City in 1898. He also engaged as an author on law subjects. Borland was elected as a

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to the sixty-first and four succeeding Congresses, and served from March 4, 1909 until his death. In 1914, he sponsored the District of Columbia Improvements Legislation, informally known as the Borland Amendment. Borland also introduced the Calder–Borland Bill (later called the

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) with William M. Calder. The bill proposed

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for workers in the country. Borland was an advocate for

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and supported the Kahn amendment, a bill supporting military preparedness prior to the involvement of the United States in

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. He later supported the

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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress, losing the Democratic primary to William T. Bland.

Personal life

Borland married Ona Winants in 1904. In October 1918, Borland was stricken with the

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. Borland died of

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near

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, while on a

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mission abroad, on February 20, 1919. He was interred in Elmwood Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.

References

William P. Borland, late a representative from Missouri, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1920

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Borland, William Patterson 1867 births 1919 deaths People from Leavenworth, Kansas University of Michigan Law School alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri 19th-century American lawyers 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives

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