Neil Haven Klock
{{short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Neil Haven Klock
|birth_date = {{birth date|1896|11|09}}
|birth_place =
|death_date = {{death date and age|1978|08|10|1896|11|09}}
|death_place = Veterans Administration Hospital
Alexandria, Louisiana
|office1 = Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
|term_start1 = 1940
|preceded1 =
|succeeded1 =
|party = Democratic
|spouse = {{marriage|Olive Ruth Cloud|1922|1926|end=died.}}{{Cite web|url=http://klockconnections.com/Descendants%20of%20Conrad%20Clock,%20Part%205.pdf|title=Klock Connections: Generation No. 6|first=David W.|last=Klock|work=Klock Connections|access-date=October 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103121917/http://klockconnections.com/Descendants%20of%20Conrad%20Clock,%20Part%205.pdf|archive-date=November 3, 2016|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}}
|alma_mater = Texas A&M University
}}
Neil Haven Klock (November 9, 1896 – August 10, 1978) was an American politician.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/210781724/|title=Neil Haven Klock for Representative, Issues Statement|work=The Town Talk|location=Alexandria, Louisiana|date=October 21, 1939|access-date=October 23, 2022|page=3|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} He served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.{{Cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov:80/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembers1812_2008.pdf|title=Membership In The Louisiana House Of Representatives 1812 – 2012|work=David R. Poynter Legislative Research Library|access-date=October 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331104823/http://house.louisiana.gov:80/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembers1812_2008.pdf|archive-date=March 31, 2010|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}}
Klock was the son of John Charles Klock. He attended Texas A&M University{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-town-talk-obituary-for-neil-haven-kl/72068263/ |title=Obituary for Neil Haven Klock (Aged 81)|work=The Town Talk|location=Alexandria, Louisiana|date=August 12, 1978|access-date=2023-05-10|page=2|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} and served in the United States Army during World War I. At one time he ran the Meeker Sugar Refinery, a syrup business, with his brother Ernest Klock.
In 1940, Klock won election to the Louisiana House of Representatives where he served until 1944. He was a farmer when he retired. Klock was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church in Cheneyville, Louisiana. At the time of his death he resided in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Klock died in August 1978 in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Alexandria, at the age of 81. He was buried in Trinity Episcopal Cemetery.
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Category:United States Army soldiers
Category:American military personnel of World War I
Category:Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Category:Businesspeople from Louisiana
Category:Farmers from Louisiana
Category:Texas A&M University alumni
Category:20th-century members of the Louisiana State Legislature
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