Richard Parks Bland
Richard Parks Bland
Richard Parks Blandwas an American politician, lawyer, and educator from Missouri. A Democrat, Bland served in the United States Congress a total of twenty-four years between 1873 and 1899, representing at various times the Missouri 5th, 8th and 11th congressional districts. Nicknamed "Silver Dick" for his efforts to promote a United States return to bimetallism and an advocate of the free silver movement, Bland is best known for the Bland–Allison Act. The act, passed over President Rutherford B. Hayes veto...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 August 1835
CountryUnited States of America
We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.
Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.