William Huntington Kirkpatrick

William Huntington Kirkpatrick ( born October 2, 1885 in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, † 28 November 1970 at Cumberstone, Maryland) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1921 and 1923 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

William Kirkpatrick was the son of Congressman William Sebring Kirkpatrick ( 1844-1932 ). He attended the common schools and afterwards until 1905, the Lafayette College. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his 1908 was admitted to the bar he began in Easton to work in this profession. During the First World War he served first as a major and then as a lieutenant colonel in the legal department of the United States Army. He was one of a commission to review of court-martial judgments.

Politically Kirkpatrick was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1920 he was in the 26th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Henry Joseph Steele on March 4, 1921. Since he has not been confirmed in 1922, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1923.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Kirkpatrick initially practiced as a lawyer again. In March 1927 he was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge to be a judge at the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In 1933 he became chairman in that district judges; this office he held until 1958. He died on 28 November 1970 at Cumberstone.