Background
Cline, Cyrus was born on July 12, 1856 in Richland Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Michael and Barbara (Orewiler) Cline.
United States representative politician
Cline, Cyrus was born on July 12, 1856 in Richland Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Michael and Barbara (Orewiler) Cline.
Moved in infancy with parents to Indiana. Bachelor of Science, Hillsdale (Michigan) College, 1876, Master of Arts, 1878.
Cline was the Superintendent of the schools of Steuben County 1877-1883. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and began practice in Angola, Indiana, in 1884. Cline was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1917).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Sixty-second Congress).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916. He resumed the practice of law in Angola, Indiana, where he died.
He was interred in Circle Hill Cemetery.
Member of 61st to 64th Congresses (1909-1917), 12th Indiana District.
Married Jennie Gibson, of Thetford, Vermont, October 6, 1880.