Marcus C. L. Kline
Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Marcus Charles Lawrence Kline (March 26, 1855 – March 10, 1911) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician who served two terms as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1907.
Biography
Marcus C. L. Kline was born in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he was a member of Chi Phi fraternity. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1876, and commenced practicing in Allentown.
Early career
He served as city solicitor of Allentown in 1877, as district attorney for Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, from 1887 to 1890, and chairman of the Democratic Party in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, from 1895 to 1899.
He worked as president of the Lehigh Valley Trust Co. from 1899 to 1906.
Congress
Kline was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906.
Later career
After Congress, Kline resumed the practice of law and also engaged in banking. He worked as president of the Allentown Trust Co. from 1907 to 1911. He was a delegate to the 1908 Democratic National Convention.
Death
Kline died in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on March 10, 1911, at age 55, and was interred in Fairview Cemetery in Allentown.[1]
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