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Royal Samuel Copeland
Reprinted from the Chironian, 1909
Health & Fitness; Homeopathy; Health & Fitness / Homeopathy; Homeopathy; Medical / Alternative Medicine
Refraction, Including Muscle Imbalance and Adjustment of Glasses
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Royal Samuel Copeland was an American physician, public health officer and United States Senator.
Background
Royal Samuel Copeland was born on November 7, 1868 in Dexter, Michigan, United States. He was the son of Roscoe Pulaski and Frances Jane (Holmes) Copeland and a descendant of Lawrence Copeland, who had emigrated from England to Plymouth Colony about 1650.
Education
He was educated at Dexter High School and at Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, and for a brief time taught country school. Deciding to enter the medical profession, he received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1889 and interned in the university hospital for a year, specializing in ophthalmology and otology.
He received honorary degrees from Lawrence University (1897), Hahnemann Medical College (1921), Syracuse University (1923), Oglethorpe University (1927), and Temple University (1934).
Career
After brief postgraduate study in Europe, he practised in Bay City, Michigan from 1890 to 1895.
He was professor of ophthalmology, otology, and paedology in the Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan from 1895 to 1908.
While at Ann Arbor, Copeland was elected mayor on the Republican ticket in 1901 and later served as president of the board of education and of the board of park commissioners.
He was a delegate to the Methodist Ecumenical Conference in London, 1900, thrice a delegate to Methodist general conferences, and national treasurer of the Methodist young people's Epworth League, 1900-08. In 1908 Copeland moved to New York City, where he became dean of the Flower Hospital Medical College.
During the next ten years he enjoyed a growing reputation as an eye specialist, teacher, and medical writer.
In April 1918 Mayor John F. Hylan of New York persuaded him to accept the post of city commissioner of public health.
Altogether, Copeland's record was decidedly creditable, though, perhaps in the interests of these broader aims, he had allowed too free rein to Tammany in his department.
The course of Copeland's life was completely changed in 1922. When the Democrats drew up their ticket for that year, Alfred E. Smith, their candidate for governor, refused to accept William Randolph Hearst as his running-mate for United States Senator. Copeland, on friendly terms with both Tammany and Hearst, was finally brought forth as a compromise candidate. The nationwide reaction against the scandals of the Harding administration that year helped Copeland, who had avoided issues, to triumph over Senator William M. Calder by approximately 281, 000 votes.
For a medical professor and Republican mayor of a community of 15, 000 to become Democratic Senator from New York in fourteen years was little short of meteoric. From the start Copeland proved an able statewide campaigner. His rural and Methodist background enabled him to draw many normally Republican votes in the upstate counties, while at the same time he retained great popularity in New York City. He won reelection to the Senate in the Republican year of 1928, when Al Smith himself failed to carry the state, and in 1934 by the resounding margin of 629, 000. The New Deal found him out of step, and he soon broke with it. Thus he disapproved of the devaluation of the dollar and of the Philippine Independence Act, led a successful fight against the ratification of the St. Lawrence Seaway Treaty (1934), and bitterly opposed President Roosevelt's court reform plan. In the 1937 New York City mayoralty campaign, Tammany, at odds with Roosevelt, entered Copeland in the Democratic primary, hoping to break the Flynn-Kelly-Farley domination of the state. On Al Smith's advice Copeland entered the Republican primary as well, where he opposed Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. The double struggle was grueling and vindictive; Copeland lost both nominations, a defeat which also marked the political eclipse of Al Smith.
But his vast efforts here, together with a variety of other concurrent activities, utterly exhausted him. Moreover, serving on eight conference committees toward the close of the session had aggravated an illness of several weeks which Copeland had stoically kept to himself.
As the only physician in the Senate, he had constantly warned his colleagues against overwork.
He died at his Shoreham Hotel apartment in Washington. Death was attributed to "a general circulatory collapse complicated by a kidney ailment. " His funeral was held at his Suffern, New York, home, and burial took place in the family plot at Mahwah, New Jersey.
Besides several medical articles and pamphlets, Copeland was the author, with Adolph E. Ibershoff, of a textbook, Refraction (1906). He also wrote The Health Book (1924) and Dr. Copeland's Home Medical Book (1934).
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Religion
He was a devout Methodist.
Politics
In the Senate Copeland became known as an exceptionally conscientious legislator with a special interest in pure food and drug legislation. A believer in compromise and negotiation, he was not a battler for causes.
Copeland's crowning achievement in the Senate was the passage of the Copeland-Lea Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Bill on June 10, 1938, after five years of labor.
Personality
Described as "debonair, jaunty, his lapel garnished every morning with a fresh, red carnation, " he was as easily recognizable by his sturdy build, his height of almost six feet, his wavy shock of graying hair, and his bushy black eyebrows jutting over silver-rimmed bifocals. Copeland was an avowed and sincere conservative.
Connections
He married Frances Spalding of Ann Arbor in 1908. They had a son, Royal Spalding (later known as Royal S. Copeland, Jr. ) and a daughter, Alice.