- Robert Klotz
Robert Klotz (
October 27 ,1819 –May 1 ,1895 ) was a Democratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Robert Klotz was born in Northampton (now Carbon) County,
Pennsylvania . He attended the country schools. He was the first register and recorder of Carbon County in 1843.During the war with
Mexico served in the Second Pennsylvania Volunteers as a private, lieutenant, and adjutant in 1846 and 1847. He was a member of thePennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1848 and was reelected in 1849.He moved to
Pawnee, Kansas , in 1855. He was a member of theTopeka, 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 GovernorCharles Robinson .He returned to
Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania , in 1857. He served as treasurer of Carbon County in 1859.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 ofLehigh University inBethlehem, Pennsylvania , from 1874 to 1882.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 Co. in
New York City . He died in Mauch Chunk in 1895. Interment in City Cemetery.References
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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/klinedinst-knaggs.html The Political Graveyard]
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