William Sebring Kirkpatrick (April 21, 1844 - November 3, 1932) is a Republican member of the US House of Representatives of Pennsylvania.
William S. Kirkpatrick (father of William Huntington Kirkpatrick) was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. He attended public school and Lafayette University in Easton. He studied law, was treated at the bar, and started practicing in Easton. He was Easton's attorney from 1866 to 1874. He worked as a teacher at Easton public schools in 1868 and 1869. He was appointed judge of the third district court president in 1874, and served as a faculty member of Lafayette College from 1875 to 1877 and councilor supervisor from 1890 to 1932. He led temporarily over the Republican State Convention in 1882. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1884. He was the Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891. He served as a lecturer in city law at Lafayette College.
Kirkpatrick was a failed candidate for election in 1894. He was elected a Republican at the Fifty-Five Congress. He was a candidate who failed to be re-elected in 1898. For one year 1902-1903 he served as president acting in Lafayette while Ethelbert president Dudley Warfield recovered in Europe. He continued his legal practice and died in Easton, in 1932. Cemetery at Easton Cemetery.
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- United States Congress. "William Sebring Kirkpatrick (id: K000241)". Directory of Biographies of the United States Congress . Ã,
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- Jordan, John W. (1914). Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography: Illustrated . 1 . Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
- Heller, William J. (1920). History of Northampton County and Grand Valley of the Lehigh . 2 . Boston: American Historical Society.
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