William Sebring Kirkpatrick

William Sebring Kirkpatrick (* April 21, 1844 in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, † November 3, 1932 ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Kirkpatrick attended the common schools and the Lafayette College in Easton. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. Between 1866 and 1874 he was a legal representative of his hometown of Easton. In the years 1868 and 1869 he taught there as a teacher in the public schools; 1875 to 1877 he was a member of the faculty of Lafayette College, where he still continued in later lectures on municipal law. From 1890 to 1932 he was a board member at that institution. In 1874, Kirkpatrick was Chief Judge of the third Judicial District of Pennsylvania. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1882 he was a delegate, and at times chairman of the regional congress of the Republicans in Pennsylvania; in June 1884 he took part in Chicago as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. Between 1887 and 1891 he held the office of Attorney General in Pennsylvania. In 1894 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Kirkpatrick was but then in the seventh election district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Joseph Johnson Hart on March 4, 1897. Since he has not been confirmed in 1898, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1899. This was marked by the events of the Spanish-American War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William Kirkpatrick practiced as a lawyer again. He died on November 3, 1932 in Easton. His son William (1885-1970) was also a congressman.