Ardolph Loges Kline
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| In office September 10, 1913 – December 31, 1913 |
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| Preceded by | William Jay Gaynor |
| Succeeded by | John Purroy Mitchel |
| Constituency | Brooklyn, New York City:
(51st Aldermanic District and Fifth Congressional District) |
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| Born | February 21, 1858 near Newton, New Jersey |
| Died | October 13, 1930 Brooklyn, New York |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | (née) Francis A. Phalon |
| Profession | merchant, military officer, government official |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Ardolph Loges Kline (February 21, 1858 - October 13, 1930), was a senior officer of the New York National Guard and a Republican politician who became Mayor of New York City on September 10, 1913 upon the death of Mayor William Jay Gaynor[1]. He was later a United States Representative from Brooklyn (1921-1923).
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[edit] Biography
Kline was born near Newton, New Jersey in 1858 and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts but did not attend college. In 1876-77, he started working for a men's clothing company in New York City and joined the New York National Guard as a private. When the Spanish-American War of 1898 began, he was named a Lieutenant-Colonel, and in 1901 a Brevet (honorary or acting) Brigadier-General.
[edit] Political career
After losing a campaign for Sheriff of Kings County (Brooklyn), Gen. Kline was elected as an Alderman for the 51st District in Brooklyn in 1903 and 1905, but lost re-election in 1907 due to Democratic redrawing of his district. He won back his seat in 1911 and became Vice-Chairman of the Board of Aldermen in 1912. When John P. Mitchel resigned as President of the Board in 1912 in order to become Collector of U.S. Customs for the Port of New York, Kline succeeded Mitchel. And when Mayor Gaynor, who was seriously ill, died at sea in September 1913, Board President Kline became Mayor. He served out the remainder of Gaynor's term, leaving office on December 31, 1913.
He later served as U.S. Representative from New York (5th District) from 1921 to 1923, but was defeated for re-election in 1922 by Loring M. Black, Jr. (Democratic, 1923-1935). Kline spent all of his post-Congressional life as New York manager of the sea-service bureau of the United States Shipping Board.
Ardolph Kline died in October 1930 at the Methodist Episcopal Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery.[2]
He is still (as of 2008) the only Mayor of the consolidated (post-1897) City never to have won a City-wide popular election to any office (such as those from which Joseph V. McKee and Vincent Impellitteri rose to become Acting Mayor).
[edit] Congressman Kline's election returns
Here are the election returns from the Fifth Congressional District in Brooklyn for 1920-22, as reported by William Tyler Page, the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives[3]. The sitting Democratic Representative, John B. Johnston (1919-21), did not seek re-election in 1920.[4]
- (1920 was a landslide election year for the Republicans under President Warren G. Harding, but in the statewide elections of 1922, without such a national race, the New York City Democrats Al Smith and Royal Copeland easily unseated Republican Governor Nathan L. Miller and Republican U.S. Senator William M. Calder.) [5]
| year | candidate | party | vote | percent |
| 1920 | Ardolph L. Kline | Republican | 42,129 | 58.2% |
| Edward Cassin | Democratic | 27,650 | 38.2% | |
| Israel M. Chatcuff | Socialist | 2,047 | 2.8% | |
| William M. Nichol | Prohibition | 574 | 0.8% | |
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72,400 | |||
| 1922 | Loring M. Black, Jr. | Democratic | 33,840 | 54.9% |
| Ardolph L. Kline | Republican | 25,917 | 42.1% | |
| Louis Weil | Socialist & Farmer-Labor | 1,412 | 2.3% | |
| William M. Nichol | Prohibition | 428 | 0.7% | |
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TOTAL
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61,597 | |||
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ "The New Mayor Of New York, Ardolph L. Kline", New York Times, 14 September 1913. Retrieved on 2008-05-27. "The Man Who By a Double Turn of the Wheel of Fate Becomes the City's Chief Executive Is the Direct Opposite of Gaynor in Personality."[Access to this article is free.]
- ^ "Ex-Mayor Kline Dies At Age Of 72. City's Chief Executive A Few Months Upon Death Of Mayor Gaynor In 1913. Once Head Of Aldermen. A Brigadier General In The National Guard. Was With U.S. Shipping Board At His Death. Joined National Guard In 1876. Praised By Gaynor.", New York Times, 14 October 1930. Retrieved on 2008-05-27. "Brig. Gen. Ardolph L. Kline, who was Mayor of New York from Sept. 10 to Dec. 31, 1913, died yesterday in the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn, at the age of 72. He became Mayor on the death of Mayor Gaynor, being President of the Board of Aldermen at the time." [Access to the full article may require payment or subscription.]
- ^ http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/index.html
- ^ John B. Johnston in The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- ^ New York gubernatorial elections, The House Clerk's Report on 1922 Election and The World Almanac and Book of Facts for 1929, pages 889-890
| Preceded by William Jay Gaynor (D) |
Mayor of New York City 1913 |
Succeeded by John Purroy Mitchel (Fusion) |
| Preceded by John B. Johnston (D) |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 5th congressional district 1921–1923 |
Succeeded by Loring M. Black, Jr. (D) |
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