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Cline, Charles Edward

journalist, state legislator, was born July 8, 1858, in Danville, Ill. He received his education in the public schools of Danville; and subsequently attended a polytechnic institute in St. Louis, Mo. In 1876 he moved to Nebraska, where he took an active interest in the campaign of that year for Peter Cooper. In 1880 he was a delegate to the state greenback convention, and also to the national greenback convention which nominated Weaver in that year. In 1884 he settled in Lynden, Wash., elected a representative of the Washington state legislature by the people's party; and received the re-election in 1896. For a number of years he was a justice of the peace; edited The Farm and Fruit Grower; and in 1897 established The Washington State Journal of Olympia.