Claude L'Engle was a United States Representative from Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

 where he attended the public schools and Duval High School

Duval High School

Duval High School, a government funded higher school education facility located in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia was founded in 1974. Its current enrolment is approximately 800 students, male and female, from Year 7 to Year 12....

. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and later became the editor and publisher of Dixie, a weekly newspaper.

L'Engle was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915) but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress. After leaving Congress, he again engaged in journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

. He died in Jacksonville, Florida in 1919 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery.