William Sebring Kirkpatrick
William Sebring Kirkpatrick | |
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Joseph Johnson Hart | |
Succeeded by | Laird Howard Barber |
Attorney General of Pennsylvania | |
In office January 18, 1887 – January 10, 1891 | |
Governor | James A. Beaver |
Preceded by | Lewis C. Cassidy |
Succeeded by | W. U. Hensel |
Personal details | |
Born | Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S. | April 21, 1844
Died | November 3, 1932 Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 88)
Resting place | Easton Cemetery |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Elizabeth H. Jones |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | Lafayette College |
Signature | |
William Sebring Kirkpatrick (April 21, 1844 – November 3, 1932) was a
U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
.
William S. Kirkpatrick (father of
Attorney General
of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891. He served as lecturer on municipal law at Lafayette College.
Kirkpatrick was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1894. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898. For a year from 1902 to 1903 he served as the acting president at Lafayette while president Ethelbert Dudley Warfield recuperated in Europe.[1] He resumed the practice of law and died in Easton, in 1932. Interment in Easton Cemetery.
References
- ^ Skillman, David Bishop (1932). The Biography of a College: Being the History of the First Century of the Life of Lafayette College. Easton, Pennsylvania: Lafayette College.
Sources
- United States Congress. "William Sebring Kirkpatrick (id: K000241)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- The Political Graveyard
- Jordan, John W. (1914). Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography: Illustrated. Vol. 1. Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
- Heller, William J. (1920). History of Northampton County and the Grand Valley of the Lehigh. Vol. 2. Boston: American Historical Society.