Snyder S. Kirkpatrick

Snyder Solomon Kirkpatrick ( born February 21, 1848 Mulkey, Franklin County, Illinois, † April 5, 1909 in Fredonia, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Snyder Kirkpatrick attended the public schools of his home. In 1864, he served during the Civil War in a cavalry unit from Illinois. He then worked from 1865 in the trade. After studying law in the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1868 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Cairo. In 1873 he moved his practice after Fredonia, Kansas. In 1880 he was district attorney in Wilson County.

Kirkpatrick was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1889 and 1893 he sat in the Senate of Kansas. In 1892, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. In the congressional elections of 1894, he was then in the third district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1893 the successor of Thomas Jefferson Hudson. Because it did in 1896 is not confirmed, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1897. In the following two congressional elections, he ran unsuccessfully for each his return to the House of Representatives.

Between 1903 and 1905, Kirkpatrick MP in the House of Representatives from Kansas. He died in 1909 in Fredonia and was also buried there.