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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Kleberg-Wurzbach family of Texas</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.</p> <p>These groupings — even the <i>names</i> of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.</p> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT135"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/905/80.88.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="Rudolph Kleberg"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Rudolph Kleberg (1847-1924)</b> — of Cuero, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DW-lived.html">DeWitt County</a>, Tex. Born in Cat Spring, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/AU-born.html">Austin County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/06-26.html">June 26, 1847</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/stsen.html">Texas state senate</a>, 1883-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas</a>, 1885-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 11th District, 1896-1903. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/12-28.html">December 28, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 185 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-buried.html#cms00703">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Austin, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kittredge-kleier.html#276.86.94">Richard Mifflin Kleberg, Sr.</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eberhart-eddleman.html#523.72.46">Robert Christian Eckhardt</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10775.html">Kleberg-Wurzbach family</a> of Texas.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000258">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406417">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Harry McLeary Wurzbach (1874-1931)</b> — also known as <b>Harry M. Wurzbach</b> — of Seguin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GD-lived.html">Guadalupe County</a>, Tex. Born in San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-born.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/05-19.html">May 19, 1874</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GD-officials.html">Guadalupe County Attorney</a>, 1901-02; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GD-officials.html">Guadalupe County Judge</a>, 1905-12; delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/TX.html">1912</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/TX.html">1924</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 14th District, 1921-29, 1930-31; defeated, 1928; died in office 1931. Died in San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-died.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/11-06.html">November 6, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 171 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-buried.html#cms00858">Military Cemetery</a>, San Antonio, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Darden Wagner; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eberhart-eddleman.html#523.72.46">Robert Christian Eckhardt</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10775.html">Kleberg-Wurzbach family</a> of Texas.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000775">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411924">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Richard Mifflin Kleberg, Sr. (1887-1955)</b> — also known as <b>Richard M. Kleberg</b> — of Corpus Christi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/NU-lived.html">Nueces County</a>, Tex. Born near Kingsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/KB-born.html">Kleberg County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/11-18.html">November 18, 1887</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 14th District, 1931-45. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/05-08.html">May 8, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 171 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/KB-buried.html#cms02695">Chamberlain Burial Park</a>, Kingsville, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kittredge-kleier.html#905.80.88">Rudolph Kleberg</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eberhart-eddleman.html#523.72.46">Robert Christian Eckhardt</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10775.html">Kleberg-Wurzbach family</a> of Texas.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000257">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406416">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert Christian Eckhardt (1913-2001)</b> — also known as <b>Bob Eckhardt</b> — of Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-lived.html">Harris County</a>, Tex. Born in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-born.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/07-16.html">July 16, 1913</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1959-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 8th District, 1967-81; defeated, 1980. Author of the War Powers Act and the Toxic Substances Act. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">hemorrhagic stroke</a>, in Seton <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/11-13.html">November 13, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 120 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-buried.html#cms06263">Austin Memorial Park</a>, Austin, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wrightson-wyant.html#066.22.95">Harry McLeary Wurzbach</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kittredge-kleier.html#905.80.88">Rudolph Kleberg</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kittredge-kleier.html#276.86.94">Richard Mifflin Kleberg, Sr.</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10775.html">Kleberg-Wurzbach family</a> of Texas.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000035">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403730">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6000752">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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