I. Clinton Kline Explained

I. Clinton Kline
Image Name:Isaac Clinton Kline (Pennsylvania Congressman).jpg
Caption:Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress
State:Pennsylvania
District:16th
Term Start:March 4, 1921
Term End:March 3, 1923
Preceded:John V. Lesher
Succeeded:Edgar R. Kiess
Birth Date:18 August 1858
Birth Place:Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Death Place:DeLand, Florida, U.S.
Party:Republican
Alma Mater:State Normal School (Bloomsburg)
Bucknell Academy
Lafayette College

Isaac Clinton Kline (August 18, 1858 – December 2, 1947) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

He was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. He attended the State Normal School in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and Bucknell Academy in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1893. He taught school five years before entering college. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.

Kline was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1912, but was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922. He resumed the practice of his profession in Sunbury, and died in DeLand, Florida. Interment in Pomfret Manor Cemetery, in Sunbury.

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