Oren S. Copeland
{{Short description|American politician (1887–1958)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Oren S. Copeland
| image = Oren S. Copeland (Nebraska Congressman).jpg
| caption = Lincoln Star, May 5, 1937
| state = Nebraska
| district = {{ushr|Nebraska|1|1st}}
| term_start = January 3, 1941
| term_end = January 3, 1943
| predecessor = John Hyde Sweet
| successor = Carl Curtis
| office1 = 31st Mayor of Lincoln
| term_start1 = May 10, 1937
| term_end1 = February 28, 1940
| predecessor1 = Charles W. Bryan
| successor1 = Robert Erle Campbell
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|3|16}}
| birth_place = Huron, South Dakota
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|4|10|1887|3|16}}
| resting_place = Wyuka Cemetery
| death_place = Lincoln, Nebraska
| party = Republican
| spouse = Iva C. Young
| children = Richard E. Copeland
}}
Oren Sturman Copeland (March 16, 1887 – April 10, 1958) was an American Republican Party politician. From 1941 to 1943, he served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Biography
He was born on a farm near Huron, South Dakota on March 16, 1887, and moved with his parents to Pender, Nebraska in 1891. He attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1904 to 1907 and worked at a Lincoln newspaper in 1910 and a gas station in 1913.
He served as city commissioner in the department of public safety from 1935 to 1937 when he was elected mayor of Lincoln.
= Congress =
He resigned as mayor to run for congress and was elected to the Seventy-seventh United States Congress.
= Later career =
He was unsuccessful in being renominated and returned to the retail fuel business.
He was a delegate to the 1912 Republican National Convention.
= Death and burial =
File:Grave of Oren Sturman Copeland (1887–1958) at Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, NE.jpg
He died in Lincoln on April 10, 1958, and is buried there in Wyuka Cemetery.
References
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- {{cite web |website=The Political Graveyard |title=Copeland, Oren Sturman |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coots-corbly.html#R9M0ITHA3 |access-date=February 27, 2006 }}
- {{cite web |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |title=Copeland, Oren Sturman |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000768 |access-date=February 27, 2006 }}
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Category:Mayors of Lincoln, Nebraska
Category:People from Huron, South Dakota
Category:People from Pender, Nebraska
Category:University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska
Category:20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
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