Cyrus Cline

Cyrus Cline (* July 12, 1856 in Mansfield, Ohio; † October 5, 1923 in Angola, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1917 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already in 1858 came Cyrus Cline with his parents in the Steuben County in Indiana, where the family settled near the village of Angola. He attended the public schools of his new home, including the Angola High School. After Cline studied until 1876 at Hillsdale College in Michigan. Between 1877 and 1883 he was a School Board in Steuben County. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in 1884 to work in Angola in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1908 Cline was in the twelfth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Clarence C. Gilhams on March 4, 1909. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 four legislative sessions. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. Between 1911 and 1913, Cline was chairman of the committee to monitor the expenditure on public property.

1916 was subject Cline Republican Louis W. Fairfield. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again in Angola, where he died on 5 October 1923.