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Richard P. Bland
Richard Parks Bland (August 19, 1835 – June 15, 1899) was 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,〔Irwin Unger, ''The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879'' (1964) pp 356-65〕 Bland is best known for the Bland–Allison Act. The act, passed over President Rutherford B. Hayes veto in 1878, required the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars.〔Ari Arthur Hoogenboom, ''Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President'' (1995) pp 96-98〕 Bland was a U.S. Presidential candidate in 1896, seeking the Democratic presidential nomination but lost to William Jennings Bryan.
==Early life and education==
Bland was born near Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky to Stoughton Edward and Mary P. (Nall) Bland. His father was a descendant of one of the First Families of Virginia, including statesman and Continental Congress member Richard Bland.〔 The Blands and Nalls were among the early families to emigrate from Virginia with Daniel Boone into the Kentucky wilderness.〔 Despite the family pedigree and wealth in Virginia, Richard and his three siblings were raised in relative poverty on his parents small farm.〔 In 1842, when Richard Bland was seven years old, the situation was exacerbated by the unexpected death of his father.〔 His mother's death followed in 1849, leaving the young teenager an orphan and forcing Bland to hire himself out as a farm laborer to survive.〔〔 Despite growing up poor, he was able to attend Hartford College and graduate with a teacher's certificate. Bland then taught school in his hometown for two years before moving to Wayne County, Missouri at age 20, in 1855.
His first time of residence in Missouri was brief, Bland teaching just one term at a school in Patterson, Missouri before heading further west to California. While there he began to study law. He then moved to the western portion of the Utah Territory, part of present-day western Nevada, where he taught school, and tried his hand at prospecting and mining.〔 It appears, from a eulogy delivered in Congress, that while in the West Bland was also involved in conflict with Native Americans on multiple occasions, although few details are known.〔 While teaching school he continued to study law and after passing the bar began practicing in Virginia City and Carson City.〔 It was during his time in California and Nevada he developed a lifelong interest in mining, silver in particular.〔
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