Theodore F. Kluttz

Theodore Franklin Kluttz (born October 4, 1848 in Salisbury , Rowan County , North Carolina , †  November 18, 1918 there ) was an American politician . Between 1899 and 1905 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Theodore Kluttz attended the public schools in his home country and then worked as a druggist. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1881, he began to practice this profession in his native Salisbury. Between 1884 and 1886 he was presiding judge at the Inferior Court in Rowan County.

Politically, Kluttz was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where William Jennings Bryan was first nominated as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1898 , Kluttz was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Alonzo C. Shuford on March 4, 1899 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1905 . From 1903 he represented the eighth district of his state there as the successor to Edmond Spencer Blackburn .

In 1904, Kluttz renounced another congress candidacy. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer in Salisbury. He died there on November 18, 1918. He was married to Sally Caldwell Kluttz (1847-1909), with whom he had a daughter who had died in 1900.

Web links

• Theodore F. Kluttz in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Theodore F. Kluttz in the database of Find a Grave (English)