He was born in
Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. He attended the
State Normal School in
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and
Bucknell Academy in
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from
Lafayette College in
Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1893. He taught school five years before entering college. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in
Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Kline was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1912, but was elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922. He resumed the practice of his profession in Sunbury, and died in
DeLand, Florida. Interment in
Pomfret Manor Cemetery, in Sunbury. ==Sources==