{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} thumb|right|Christian Kloepfer

'''Christian Kloepfer''' (22 December 1847 &ndash; 9 February 1913) was a wholesale merchant and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Wellington South in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1900 as a Conservative.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=2198|nolist=yes}}</ref>

He was born in New Germany, Waterloo County, Canada West, the son of German immigrants. Kloepfer sold hardware for carriages. In 1880, he married Elizabeth Murray.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32962/167 |page=151 |title=The Canadian Parliamentary Companion |year=1897 |publisher=J. Durie & Son |editor-last=Gemmill |editor-first=J.A. |location=Ottawa}}</ref> Kloepfer ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 1900 and 1904. He served as a member of the municipal council for Guelph.<ref name="parl"/> Kloepfer was a director of the Traders Bank of Canada.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=4925 |title=''Guelph : perspectives on a century of change, 1900-2000'' (2000) |access-date=2009-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926215952/http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=4925 |archive-date=2007-09-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He died in Guelph at the age of 65.<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/canadiandirector0000publ/page/308 |page=308 |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament, 1867-1967 |editor-first=J.K. |editor-last=Johnson |location=Ottawa |publisher=Public Archives Canada |date=1968 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

== Electoral record == {{1896 Canadian federal election/Wellington South}} {{1900 Canadian federal election/Wellington South}} {{1904 Canadian federal election/Wellington South}}

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