Andrew Jackson Kirk

Andrew Jackson Kirk ( born March 19, 1866 Warfield, Martin County, Kentucky, † May 25, 1933 in Paintsville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1926 and 1927 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Kirk attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree from Valparaiso University in Indiana and his 1890 was admitted to the bar he began in Inez to work in this profession. Between 1894 and 1898 served as Kirkland District Attorney in Martin County. After that, he was from 1898 to 1904 Attorney in the 24th Judicial District of Kentucky. In the same region, he was then judge. This post he held until 1916; then he again worked as a private lawyer.

Politically, Kirk member of the Republican Party. After the resignation of Representative John W. Langley, he was at the due election for the seat tenth of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 13 February 1926. Since he was not nominated at the regular elections of the year 1926 by his party for re-election, he could finish only the opened term of his predecessor in Congress until March 3, 1927.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Kirk practiced as a lawyer again. In 1933 he became a candidate of his party for the office of district judge. But he died before the decision on this item on May 25 this year in Paintsville. Andrew Kirk found his final resting place in the cemetery of Inez.