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In 1916, Buland ran in the primaries to the be a Republican Delegate to the National Convention for the state at large and lost. Her candidacy was challenged because at the time she ran, her husband worked, owned property, and voted in Washington State. Buland was eventually allowed to run. Buland was born in Wisconsin and moved to Washington with her husband in 1900. In Washington, she was a teacher and a school director, as well as the president of Woman's Club and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She moved to Portland, Oregon in 1912. In Oregon, she was active in the Portland Federation of Women's Clubs (president), Oregon's Committee on International Relations (chair), the Council for the Prevention of War (chair), the League of Nations Associations, and the WCTU (legislative chair and scientific temperance instructor). Mrs. G.L. Buland also went by the name Bertha Mason Buland.
