Oren Sturman Copeland (March 16, 1887 – April 10, 1958) was an American

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politician. He was born on a farm near

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on March 16, 1887, and moved with his parents to

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in 1891. He attended the

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from 1904 to 1907 and worked at a

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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. He resigned as mayor to run for congress and was elected to the

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. He was unsuccessful in being renominated and returned to the retail fuel business. He was a delegate to the

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. He died in Lincoln on April 10, 1958, and is buried there in Wyuka Cemetery.

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# # * * 1887 births 1958 deaths Mayors of Lincoln, Nebraska People from Huron, South Dakota People from Pender, Nebraska University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska 20th-century American politicians {{Nebraska-politician-stub