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Robert Klotz

Robert Klotz
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 11th district
In office
March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883
Preceded byFrancis D. Collins
Succeeded byJohn B. Storm
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
In office
1848–1849
Personal details
Born(1819-10-27)October 27, 1819
Northampton County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedMay 1, 1895(1895-05-01) (aged 75)
Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
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Robert Klotz (October 27, 1819 – May 1, 1895) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

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Robert Klotz was born in Northampton (now Carbon) County, Pennsylvania. He attended the county's schools. He was the first register and recorder of Carbon County in 1843.[1]

During the war with Mexico, he served in the Second Pennsylvania Volunteers as a private, lieutenant, and adjutant in 1846 and 1847. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1848 and was reelected in 1849.[1]

He moved to Pawnee, Kansas, in 1855. He was a member of the Topeka, Kansas, constitutional convention in 1855 and served as the first Secretary of State of Kansas under the constitution adopted. He was a brigadier general under Governor Charles Robinson.[2]

He returned to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, in 1857. He served as treasurer of Carbon County, Pennsylvania in 1859.[1]

Klotz enlisted in the Union Army in 1861, and was chosen colonel of the Nineteenth Pennsylvania Emergency Militia in 1862. He served as a trustee of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, from 1874 to 1882.[2]

Klotz was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses. He served as director and agent of the Laflin & Rand Powder Company in New York City.

Death

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He died at his home in Mauch Chunk in present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, on May 1, 1895.[3] He was buried at City Cemetery.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. VI. Boston: The Biographical Society. Retrieved May 3, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ a b c United States Congress. "Robert Klotz (id: K000272)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
  3. ^ "Death of Hon. Robert Klotz, of Mauch Chunk". The Allentown Democrat. May 8, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved May 3, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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