Charles H. Kline

Charles Howard Kline (December 25, 1870 – July 22, 1933) served as the 47th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1926 to 1933.

Early life Charles H. Kline was born in 1870 in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and became a lawyer in 1898. He married Katherine Whitesell Johnson in 1900.

Kline was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1904, and to the State Senate in 1907. He served three terms in the latter, and was the President pro tempore during the 1915 session. He was a judge in state courts from 1919 to 1925, and was elected Mayor of Pittsburgh in 1926.

He was indicted on 48 counts of malfeasance, and on conviction in 1932 ordered to resign and sentenced to six months imprisonment. He died at St. Francis Hospital in Pittsburgh on July 22, 1933. He was buried in Allegheny Cemetery.