KITCHIN, Claude, (son of William Hodges Kitchin, brother of William Walton Kitchin, and uncle of A. 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 leader (Sixty-seventh Congress); died in Wilson, N.C., May 31, 1923; interment in the Baptist Cemetery, Scotland Neck, N.C.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States 1774-present. Image: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)

CLAUDE KITCHIN.
(Second District.—Counties: Bertie, Edgecombe, Greene, Halifax, Lenoir, Northampton, Warren, and Wilson. Population (1910), 199,405.)

Claude Kitchin, Democrat, of Halifax County, was horn in Halifax County, N. C, near Scotland Neck, March 24, 1869. Graduated from Wake Forest College, June, 1883, and was married to Miss Kate Mills, November 13th of the same year. Admitted to the Bar, September, 1890, and has since been engaged in the practice of the law at Scotland Neck. Elected to Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses. Majority leader in the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses. Address: Scotland Neck, N. C.
(Source: North Carolina Manual. 1919. Published by the North Carolina Historical Commission.)