Rudolph Kleberg was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, great uncle of Robert Christian Eckhardt and uncle of Richard Mifflin Kleberg, Sr.

Born in Cat Spring, Texas

Cat Spring, Texas

Cat Spring is an unincorporated community in southern Austin County, Texas, United States. It lies along FM 949 south of the city of Bellville, the county seat of Austin County. Its elevation is 308 feet...

, Kleberg was instructed by private tutors.
He was graduated from Concrete College, De Witt County, in 1868.
He enlisted in Tom Green's brigade of Cavalry in the Confederate States Army

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 in the spring of 1864 and served until the close of the Civil War

American Civil War

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He studied law in San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...

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He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1872 and commenced practice in Cuero, Texas

Cuero, Texas

Cuero is a city in DeWitt County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,571 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of DeWitt County. It is also unofficially known as the "turkey capital of the world"...

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He established the Cuero Star in 1873.
He served as prosecuting attorney of De Witt County 1876-1890.
He served as member of the State senate 1882-1886.
He was appointed United States attorney for the western district of Texas in 1885.

Kleberg was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Fifty-fourth

54th United States Congress

- House of Representatives :-Leadership:- Senate :* President: Adlai E. Stevenson * President pro tempore: William P. Frye - Majority leadership :* Republican Conference Chairman: John Sherman- Minority leadership :...

 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William H. Crain

William H. Crain

William Henry Crain was a U.S. Representative from Texas.Born in Galveston, Texas, Crain attended the Christian Brothers' School, New York City, until the age of fourteen, and was graduated from St. Francis Xavier's College, New York City, in 1867. He returned to Texas and lived on a ranch for...

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He was reelected to the Fifty-fifth

55th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:* Republican: 206 * Democratic: 124* Populist: 22* Silver Republican: 3* Silver: 1* Independent Republican: 1TOTAL members: 357-Leadership:-Senate:* President: Garret Hobart * President pro tempore: William P...

, Fifty-sixth

56th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:- Leadership :- Senate :* President: Garret Hobart , until November 21, 1899 , vacant thereafter.* President pro tempore: William P. Frye * Democratic Caucus Chairman: James K. Jones...

, and Fifty-seventh

57th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:*Democratic: 151*Republican: 200 *Populist: 5*Silver : 1TOTAL members: 357-Leadership:-Senate:* President: Theodore Roosevelt , until September 14, 1901, vacant thereafter....

 Congresses and served from April 7, 1896, to March 3, 1903.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1902 and he resumed the practice of law,
moving to Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

, in 1905, where he was appointed official reporter for the court of criminal appeals February 24, 1905, serving until his death in Austin, December 28, 1924.
He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery.

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