Rudolph Kleberg
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Rudolph Kleberg (June 26, 1847 - December 28, 1924) was a U.S. Representative from Texas, great uncle of Robert Christian Eckhardt, uncle of Richard Mifflin Kleberg, Sr..
Born in Cat Spring, Texas, KlebergInstructed by private tutors. He was graduated from Concrete College, De Witt County, in 1868. Enlisted in Tom Green's brigade of Cavalry in the Confederate States Army in the spring of 1864 and served until the close of the Civil War. He studied law in San Antonio, Texas. He was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced practice in Cuero, Texas. 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 to the Fifty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William H. Crain. He was reelected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses and served from April 7, 1896, to March 3, 1903. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1902. He resumed the practice of law. He moved to Austin, Texas, in 1905. He was appointed official reporter for the court of criminal appeals February 24, 1905, and served until his death in Austin, December 28, 1924. He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery.
