Thomas S. Kleppe

Thomas Kleppe


United States Secretary of the Interior
In office October 17, 1975 – January 20, 1977
President	Gerald Ford
Preceded by	Stanley K. Hathaway
Succeeded by	Cecil D. Andrus
Administrator of the Small Business Administration
In office January 18, 1971 – October 12, 1975
President	Richard Nixon Gerald Ford
Preceded by	Hilary J. Sandoval Jr.
Succeeded by	Mitchell P. Kobelinski
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Dakota's 2nd district
In office January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971
Preceded by	Rolland W. Redlin
Succeeded by	Arthur A. Link
Mayor of Bismarck
In office April 1950 – April 1954
Preceded by	Amil Lenhart
Succeeded by	Evan Lips

Personal details
Born	(1919-07-01)July 1, 1919 Kintyre, North Dakota, U.S.
Died	March 2, 2007(2007-03-02) (aged 87) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Resting place	Arlington National Cemetery
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Glen Loew Gompf
Children	4
Education	Valley City State University (BA)
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	1942–1946
Battles/wars	World War II

Thomas Savig Kleppe (July 1, 1919 – March 2, 2007) was an American politician who served as the Representative from North Dakota. He was also the Administrator of the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.^[1]^[2]

Early life and military service

Kleppe was born on July 1, 1919, in Kintyre, North Dakota, the son of Lars O. Kleppe and his wife Hannah Savig Kleppe. He graduated from Valley City High School in Valley City, North Dakota in 1936. Kleppe graduated from Valley City State University, (then Valley City Teachers College). During World War II, Kleppe served from 1942 to 1946 as a Warrant Officer. ^[3]

Career

From 1950 to 1954, Kleppe was the Mayor of Bismarck, North Dakota. From 1946 to 1964, he was the president and treasurer of the Gold Seal Company. In 1964, Kleppe was the Republican nominee for United States Senate but lost to the popular incumbent Democrat Quentin N. Burdick. In 1966 he was elected to the Ninetieth United States Congress, and he was reelected in 1968 to the Ninety-first United States Congress (January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971). In 1970 he was again an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate, losing a rematch to Burdick by a wide margin. ^[4]

He served as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, and later served as the Secretary of the Interior for President Gerald Ford. In his capacity as the Secretary of the Interior, Kleppe was the appellant in Kleppe v. New Mexico (1976), when the Supreme Court ruled that Congress has the "power to protect wildlife on the public lands, state law notwithstanding."

Personal life

His first wife, Frieda K. Kleppe, died in 1957. Kleppe married his second wife, Glendora Loew Gompf, on December 18, 1958. He had two children from his first marriage and two daughters from his second marriage. He resided in Bismarck, North Dakota. Kleppe died of Alzheimer's disease, in Bethesda, Maryland, on March 2, 2007. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. ^[5]

References

↑ Thomas Savig Kleppe (Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame)
↑ "Thomas Kleppe" (PDF). Homestead National Monument of America. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
↑ John Robert Greene (January 6, 2016). "Thomas S. Kleppe (1975–1977) - Secretary of the Interior". Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
↑ "Gold Seal Company". bismarckcafe. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
↑ Virginia Grantier (March 5, 2007). "Former Rep. Tom Kleppe dies". Bismarck (ND) Tribune. Retrieved January 1, 2016.

Other sources

United States Congress. "Thomas S. Kleppe (id: K000264)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

External links

The Thomas S. Kleppe Papers (Chester Fritz Library. University of North Dakota)

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Rolland W. Redlin	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Dakota's 2nd congressional district 1967–1971	Succeeded by Arthur A. Link
Political offices
Preceded by Hilary J. Sandoval Jr.	Administrator of the Small Business Administration 1971–1975	Succeeded by Mitchell P. Kobelinski
Preceded by Stanley K. Hathaway	United States Secretary of the Interior 1975–1977	Succeeded by Cecil D. Andrus

United States Secretaries of the Interior
Ewing McKennan Stuart McClelland Thompson C Smith Usher Harlan Browning Cox Delano Chandler Schurz Kirkwood Teller Lamar Vilas Noble M Smith Francis Bliss Hitchcock Garfield Ballinger Fisher Lane Payne Fall Work West Wilbur Ickes Krug Chapman McKay Seaton Udall Hickel Morton Hathaway Kleppe Andrus Watt Clark Hodel Lujan Babbitt Norton Kempthorne Salazar Jewell Zinke

Administrators of the Small Business Administration
Mitchell Barnes McCallum Horne Foley Boutin Moot Samuels Sandoval Kleppe Kobelinski Weaver Cardenas Sanders Heatherly Abdnor Engeleiter Cooksey Saiki Watkins Bowles Pulley Lader Lew Álvarez Whitmore Barreto Preston Baruah Hairston Mills Hulit Markowitz Contreras-Sweet McMahon

Members of the United States House of Representatives from North Dakota

One seat at-large (1889–1903)

Two seats at-large (1903–1913)

Seat A	Marshall Hanna
Seat B	Spalding Gronna Helgesen

Three districts (1913–1933)

1st district	Helgesen Baer Burtness
2nd district	Young Hall
3rd district	Norton Sinclair

Two seats at-large (1933–1963)

Seat A	Sinclair U. Burdick Robertson U. Burdick Q. Burdick Nygaard
Seat B	Lemke Robertson Lemke Aandahl Krueger Short

Two districts (1963–1973)

1st district	Nygaard Andrews
2nd district	Short Redlin Kleppe Link

One seat at-large (1973–present)

Cabinet of President Gerald Ford (1974–77)

Cabinet
Secretary of State	Henry A. Kissinger (1974–77)
Secretary of the Treasury	William E. Simon (1974–77)
Secretary of Defense	James R. Schlesinger (1974–75) Donald H. Rumsfeld (1975–77)
Attorney General	William B. Saxbe (1974–75) Edward H. Levi (1975–77)
Secretary of the Interior	Rogers C. B. Morton (1974–75) Stanley K. Hathaway (1975) Thomas S. Kleppe (1975–77)
Secretary of Agriculture	Earl L. Butz (1974–76) John A. Knebel (1976–77)
Secretary of Commerce	Frederick B. Dent (1974–75) Rogers C. B. Morton (1975–76) Elliot L. Richardson (1976–77)
Secretary of Labor	Peter J. Brennan (1974–75) John T. Dunlop (1975–76) W. J. Usery Jr. (1976–77)
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	Caspar W. Weinberger (1974–75) F. David Mathews (1975–77)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	James T. Lynn (1974–75) Carla A. Hills (1975–77)
Secretary of Transportation	Claude S. Brinegar (1974–75) William T. Coleman Jr. (1975–77)

Cabinet-level
Vice President	None (1974) Nelson A. Rockefeller (1974–77)
White House Chief of Staff	Alexander M. Haig Jr. (1974) Donald H. Rumsfeld (1974–75) Richard B. Cheney (1975–77)
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Roy L. Ash (1974–75) James T. Lynn (1975–76)
Director of Central Intelligence	William E. Colby (1974–76) George H. W. Bush (1976–77)
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Russell E. Train (1974–77)
Special Representative for Trade Negotiations	William D. Eberle (1974–75) Frederick B. Dent (1975–77)
Ambassador to the United Nations	John A. Scali (1974–75) Daniel P. Moynihan (1975–76) William W. Scranton (1976–77)

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