KITCHIN, Claude, (son of William Hodges Kitchin, brother of William Walton Kitchin, uncle of Alvin Paul Kitchin), A Representative from North Carolina; born near Scotland Neck, Halifax County, N.C., March 24, 1869; attended the common schools and was graduated from Wake Forest College, North Carolina, in 1888; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1890 and practiced in Scotland Neck; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1901, until his death; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses); majority leader (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses), minority whip (Sixty-sixth Congress); minority leader (Sixty-seventh Congress); died in Wilson, N.C., May 31, 1923; interment in the Baptist Cemetery, Scotland Neck, N.C.
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United States. 68th Congress, 2d sess., 1924-1925. House. Claude Kitchin. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1925.
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