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Senate Years of Service: 1923-1938 Party: Democrat
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COPELAND, Royal Samuel, a Senator from New York; born in Dexter, Washtenaw County, Mich., on
November 7, 1868; attended the public schools and Michigan State Normal School, Ypsilanti, Mich.;
graduated from the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1889; took
postgraduate courses in Europe; house surgeon in the University of Michigan Hospital 1889-1890;
practiced medicine in Bay City, Mich. 1890-1895; professor in the medical school of the University of
Michigan 1895-1908; mayor of Ann Arbor, Mich.1901-1903; president of the park board in 1905
and 1906, and president of the Ann Arbor board of education in 1907 and 1908; member of the
Michigan State tuberculosis board of trustees 1900-1908; moved to New York City in 1908; dean
of the New York Flower Hospital and Medical College 1908-1918; member of the United States
pension examining board in 1917; commissioner of public health and president of the New York
Board of Health 1918-1923; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1922; reelected in
1928 and 1934, and served from March 4, 1923, until his death on June 17, 1938, in Washington,
D.C.; chairman, Committee on Rules (Seventy-third Congress), Committee on Commerce
(Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses); author of several scientific works, nationally known
for his writings and radio broadcasts on health problems; unsuccessful candidate for nomination as
mayor of New York City in 1937; died in Washington, D.C.; interment in Mahwah Cemetery,
Mahwah, N.J.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Potter, Raymond. Royal Samuel Copeland, 1868-1938:
A Physician in Politics. Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve, 1967; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services. 76th Cong., 1st sess., 1939. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
Office, 1939.
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