Theodore F. Kluttz

Theodore Franklin Kluttz (October 4, 1848 – November 18, 1918) was an American politician and lawyer. A Democrat, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina.

Born in Salisbury, North Carolina, Kluttz was orphaned at a young age and became self-sustaining. He worked as a pharmacist and later a lawyer. He served in the House from 1899 to 1905. Politically, he was liberal.

Early life Kluttz was born on October 4, 1848, in Salisbury, North Carolina, the son of farmer and sheriff Caleb Kluttz and Elizabeth Moose Kluttz. He was orphaned as a child and educated at common schools.

As a businessman, Kluttz was vice-president of the Yadkin Valley Railroad and was director of the North Carolina Railroad. He was president of Chestnut Hill Cemetery Association, Davis and Wiley Bank, the Rowan Knitting Company, the Salisbury Building and Loan Association, the Salisbury Chamber of Commerce. He was director of the North Carolina Steel and Iron Company, Salisbury Cotton Mills, and the Salisbury Water Works. He was a Presidential elector in the 1880 and 1896 elections, as which he voted for Winfield Scott Hancock and William Hayden English, and for William Jennings Bryan, respectively. He refused to run in the following election.

After serving in Congress, Kluttz practiced law in Salisbury. from an illness which paralyzed him for the last days of his life. He was buried at Chestnut Hill Cemetery, in Salisbury.