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Biography of Congressman John Kline
Congressman John Kline was sworn in to represent Minnesota’s
Second Congressional District as a member of the 108th
Congress in January of 2003.
In Congress, Mr.
Kline serves on the House Armed Services Committee where he is
assigned to the subcommittees on Projection Forces and on
Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities. Mr.
Kline also serves on the Education and the Workforce
Committee, where he has been assigned to the Subcommittees on
Workforce Protections and Employer-Employee relations.
John Kline came
to Congress from Minnesota where he managed the family farm
with his father in law in Houston County and served as
Executive Vice President for Center of the American
Experiment, a nonpartisan public policy and educational
institution headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Although this
marks his first elected office, Congressman Kline is familiar
with Washington, where he served as a military aide to
Presidents Carter and Reagan for three of his twenty-five
years in the United States Marine Corps. Mr. Kline’s
responsibilities during this period included carrying the
nuclear “football” – the package containing launch codes for a
nuclear attack – and advising the country’s senior leadership,
including the President. Throughout a military career from
which he retired at the rank of Colonel, Mr. Kline served as a
helicopter pilot in Vietnam, commanded all Marine aviation
forces in Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, and served as
Program Development Officer at Headquarters Marine Corps.
Congressman
Kline earned his undergraduate degree in Biology from Rice
University in 1969, and earned his Masters Degree in Public
Administration from Shippenburg University in 1988. Kline and
his wife Vicky live in Lakeville, MN and are the proud parents
of two children and four grandchildren. | 
